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A Novel from the NUMA Files
Earth is a paradox - a fertile world three-quarters covered with water, yet in danger of running dry. Overuse and pollution have drained most of its fresh water, and scientist Francesca Carval's brilliant formula for desalination has vanished with her plane over South America. But when Kurt Austin and his NUMA team come across a pod of dead whales, their investigation takes them to the Venezuelan jungle where a cadre is bent on controlling the world's supply of fresh water.
For National Underwater & Marine Agency crew leader Kurt Austin, an investigation into the sudden deaths of rare whales leads him to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently out of commission. Meanwhile, in South America's lush hills, a specially assigned NUMA crew turns up the white-goddess legend -- and a murderous cadre of bio-pirates intent on stealing medicinal secrets worth millions. Soon Austin and his crew realize they're working the opposite ends of the same grand scheme. A billionaire California tycoon is poised to rise to power by monopolizing the earth's vastly depleted freshwater reserves and ultimately dominate the world.
From deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments. Few believe the tribe exists -- and even fewer suspect its deity may hold knowledge that can change the course of history. Austin has a hunch Venezuela's mythical tribal goddess has some real roots in science, and may be the key to locating a secret formula that could turn vast amounts of seawater into fresh. But with each step into the bush, he and his NUMA team feel like fish out of water -- and must fight a deadly, twisting trail of enemies through a dense jungle of treachery, blackmail, and murder.
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Fiction, Adventure stories, Women scientists, Terrorism, Saline water conversion, Missing persons, Water-supply, Water supply, Kurt Austin (Fictitious character), Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Women scientists, fiction, Missing persons, fiction, South america, fiction, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Austin, kurt (fictitious character), fiction, Terrorism, fiction, Sea water conversion, Kurt Austin (Fictional character), Fiction, espionagePlaces
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Blue Gold: A Novel from the NUMA Files
October 2001, Pocket Books
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- First Pocket Mass Market Paperback
0743418220 9780743418225
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