Flood Tide (novel)

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Flood Tide
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Hardcover first Edition
AuthorClive Cussler
Cover artistPaul Bacon
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesDirk Pitt Novels
GenreAdventure, Techno-thriller novel
PublisherSimon & Schuster
Publication date
September 27, 1997
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages511 pp (Hardcover edition)
ISBN0-684-80298-8
OCLC37310720
813/.54 21
LC ClassPS3553.U75 F58 1997
Preceded byShock Wave
Followed byAtlantis Found

Flood Tide is an adventure novel by Clive Cussler. This is the 14th book featuring the author’s primary protagonist, Dirk Pitt. While recovering from his injuries suffered a month earlier as told in Shock Wave, Dirk stumbles upon mysterious activities around a peaceful lake in Washington state. He must rescue illegal immigrants being smuggled into the US for a life of slavery and abuse by a Chinese tycoon and locate the bones of the Peking Man, the famous lost example of Homo erectus. This book also introduces Juan Cabrillo and some of the Corporation of the future Oregon Files series of books.

Characters in Flood Tide[edit]

  • Dirk Pitt – Director, Special Projects for the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA)
  • Admiral James Sandecker – Chief Director of NUMA
  • Al Giordino – Assistant Director, Special Projects for NUMA.
  • Rudi Gunn – Director of Logistics for NUMA.
  • Julia Marie Lee - Undercover agent with the International Affairs Division of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Born in San Francisco. Has dove-gray eyes, blue-black hair, and Asian features. She is tortured and abused by Shang's henchmen after being found out as a government agent, but Pitt saves her after being thrown into Orion Lake to die.
  • Qin Shang - The greedy, evil, Chinese shipping magnate who smuggles illegal Chinese immigrants into countries around the world; including the United States.
  • Bannon

Trivia[edit]

  • In July 2005, Major Casey Scharven, a U.S. Air Force officer stationed in Iraq, got his picture taken while sitting on Saddam Hussein's throne and holding a copy of Flood Tide. [1]

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