Cyclops (novel)

Cyclops is an action-adventure novel by Clive Cussler. This is the 8th book featuring the author’s primary protagonist, Dirk Pitt.

Cyclops
Hardcover First Edition
AuthorClive Cussler
Cover artistPaul Bacon
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesDirk Pitt Novels
GenreAdventure, Techno-thriller novel
PublisherSimon & Schuster (US)
Hamish Hamilton (UK)
Publication date
1986
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages475 pp (Hardcover edition)
ISBN0-671-50374-X
OCLC12836017
813/.54 19
LC ClassPS3553.U75 C9 1986
Preceded byDeep Six 
Followed byTreasure 

Plot summary

A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts toward Florida with a crew of dead men—Soviet cosmonauts. Dirk Pitt discovers a shocking scheme: a covert group of U.S. industrialists has put a colony on the moon, a secret base they will defend at any cost. Threatened in space, the Russians are about to strike a savage blow in Cuba—and only Dirk Pitt can stop them. From a Cuban torture chamber to the cold ocean depths, Pitt is racing to defuse an international conspiracy that threatens to shatter the Earth.

Characters

  • Dirk Pitt – Special Projects Director for the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA).
  • Admiral James Sandecker – Chief Director of NUMA.
  • Al Giordino – Assistant Special Projects Director for NUMA.
  • Rudi Gunn – Director of Logistics for NUMA.
  • Foss Gly – Arizona-born criminal who Pitt had encountered before in Night Probe!, and whom Charles Sarveux wrongly presumed as dead from a rigged aircraft.
  • Vincent Margolin – The President of the United States. Previously the Vice President before the President was impeached.
  • President Georgi Antonov – Soviet President.
  • Martine Brogan – Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
  • Ira Hagen – Brother-in-law of Vincent Margolin, who is hired to identify the members for the Inner Core.

Release details

  • 1986, United States, Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-671-50374-X, 1986, Hardcover.
  • 1986, United States, Pocket Books, ISBN 99943-2-097-1, December 1986, Paperback.
  • 1987, United States, Random House Value Publishing, ISBN 0-517-65338-9, June 23, 1987, Hardcover.
  • 1989, United States, Pocket Books Reissue, ISBN 0-671-70464-8, November 15, 1989, Paperback.
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