Golden Buddha [antikvár]

Dear Readers, A few years ago, while I was writing Flood Tide, I realized that Dirk Pitt needed somé help on a particular assignment, and so I dreamed up Jüan Cabrillo. Cabrillo ran a ship called the Oregon, on the outside completely nondescript, but on the inside packed with state-of-the-art intelligence-gathering equipment. It was a completely priváté enterprise, available for any government agency that could afford it. It went where no warship could go, transported secret cargo without suspicion, plucked data out of the air - it was the perfect complement to NUMA. In fact, I had so much fun writing about the Oregon and its rakish, one-legged chief that I was sorry to see it sail off when its task was done. I promised myself I'd find a way to bring them back somé day - and here, I am pleased to say, they are. Golden Buddha is the first in a new series about Jüan Cabrillo's merry men (and women!), and I hope you get as much of a kick reading about them as I did creating them. And who knows, maybe somé time they'll cross paths with Dirk Pitt again . . . Clive Cussler