When an enzyme capable of prolonging life is discovered deep beneath the North Atlantic, NUMA Special Assignments Team leader Kurt Austin and his colleague, Joe Zavala, investigate a killer who is targeting the enzyme's harvesters and researchers. Reprint.
This thriller set on the high seas is the fifth in the NUMA Files series. A life-extending chemical found deep in the ocean, a corpse frozen in a glacier, and various murders and disappearances are linked to the sinister plottings of a family of arms dealers. Once again, the fate of the world is in the hands of Kurt Austin, head of the National Underwater and Marine Agency's Special Assignments Team.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Themes, Mystery + Crime
- Subgenre: Action + Thrillers, Settings, Suspense
- Publisher: Berkley Pub. Group
- Pages: 515
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: July 26, 2005
- Date Published: July 26, 2005
- Author: Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos