Clive Cusslers Serpent
Clive Cussler's SerpentCharacters: Kurt Austin- The leader of a courageous NUMA exploration team and the main character of the book Joe Zavala- Kurt's best friend and side-kick, he is always there to back up Kurt Nina Kirov- A beautiful marine archaeologist rescued by Kurt Austin from the terrorists Don Halcon- The evil Texas industrialist who is trying to create a Spanish uprise in the western US. Serpent stars the heroes, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala, who are members of the NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) exploration team. The story starts off on the deck of the Andrea Doria, an Italian luxury liner and the queen of the Italian fleet. Inside the ships cargo hold is a stone that holds the secret to murders of archaeologists forty-some years in the future. All is quiet on the decks of the Doria until it is rammed by another boat, the Stockholm. After it is rammed, a young waiter onboard the ship Doria, named Angelo Donatelli, is asked by a friend to find a car jack to help pry free his wife, who was trapped on the ship. While down in the cargo hold looking for the car jack, Donatelli sees an armed group of murderers kill a group of guards guarding an armored truck. The same armored truck that contains the stone. The bo
dies of the guards are shoved into the armored car and the car is shut. The car and the gruesome murders are forgotten about as the ship hits the bottom of the icy sea off Nantucket.Forty-some years later on the Moroccon coast, Dr. Nina Kirov discovers a Mayan artifact dating from the Pre-Columbian era off the coast of Morocco. This artifact gives evidence that there was contact between Central and Southern America and Europe before Columbus. She made sketches of her findings and loaded them into her personal file at a university. She visits the site one more time and comes back to find her archaeological team slaughtered and her camp burned. Nina Kirov is soon discovered by the armed murderers and is chased until she is rescued by Kurt Austin, who happened to be nearby studying marine life.The killings can be traced back to a mysterious organization called Time-Quest.Time-Quest's stated business is to give civilians an opportunity to dig with archaeologists at archaeological digs. Its real intention however, is much darker. It is to prevent anyone from discovering that Spain was not the first country on the new world scene and that culture Spain had claimed to discover had been imported from all over the world. Time Quest's leader, Francisco Halcon, ultimately wants to create a revolution in the Southern U.S. and Central America to reclaim the Western U.S. as Latin America territory.For Halcon to do this, he needs arms and money. He needs to find a treasure of which is an unspeakable value. The treasure is located by using directions inscribed on the stone in the Andrea Doria's cargo hold. The treasure is loc
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Approximate Word count = 1093
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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