TY - BOOK AU - Cussler,Clive AU - Brown,Graham TI - Nighthawk: a novel from the NUMA Files SN - 9780399184017 (hardcover) U1 - 813/.54 23 PY - 2017///] CY - New York PB - G.P. Putnam's Sons KW - Austin, Kurt (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Marine scientists KW - FICTION / Action & Adventure KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Suspense KW - fast KW - SUSPENSE KW - Suspense fiction KW - gsafd KW - Adventure fiction KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft N2 - "NUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the world's most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankind's last in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. Russia and China covet the radical technology, but the United States worries about a darker problem. They know what others don't--that the X-37 is carrying a dangerous secret, a payload of exotic matter, extracted from the upper reaches of the atmosphere and stored at a temperature near absolute zero. As long as it remains frozen, the cargo is inert, but if it thaws, it will unleash a catastrophe of nearly unthinkable proportions. From the Galapagos Islands to the jungles of South America to an icy mountain lake many believe to be the birthplace of the Inca, the entire NUMA team will risk everything in an effort to avert disaster. but they may be caught in a race that no one can win"-- ER -