num_pages: 560
description: The #1 New York Times bestseller! An underwater graveyard in the Pacific Northwest... A mysterious seaport in the bayous of Louisiana... A diabolical plot to destroy America! Unknown waters, 1948. The Princess Dou Wan, a sea-weary cruise ship covertly seized by Chiang Kai-shek, slams into a devastating storm that tears the hull apart and sends it and a mysterious cargo down into the depths, lost to all searchers for more than fifty years. Pacific Northwest, 2000. Dirk Pitt rescues a beautiful undercover immigration agent from Qin Shang, an insatiably greedy smuggler whose vast fortune is made selling Chinese immigrants into slavery around the globe. Shang's campaign contributions have bought him a collection of powerful U.S. politicians, but Pitt finds the secret behind Shang's vast and mystifying seaport in the Louisiana bayou to be shockingly sinister. From an adrenaline-pumped race against time and tide up the Mississippi River to a desperate dash to recover Chinese treasures, Dirk Pitt faces one of his most formidable foes -- a madman bent on killing hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children with a catastrophic surge of mass destruction.
language: English
title: Flood Tide
titlecomplete: Flood Tide (Dirk Pitt, #14)
characters: Al Giordino, Dirk Pitt
genres: Adventure, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Action, Historical Fiction, Espionage, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 19456
series: Dirk Pitt
publisher: Pocket