“Cussler的粉丝们知道最终谁会胜利，但是，观看努玛团队执行他们巧妙的计划总是饶有趣味的。”——《出版人周刊》
1968年，法国潜水艇Minerve在地中海沉没，毫无踪迹。今天，一个石油钻井平台在墨西哥湾爆炸，造成许多工人死亡和严重受伤。国家水下海洋机构特别项目的负责人Kurt Austin领导的团队协助应对海上紧急情况，因此他们响应求救信号，迅速发现了一股水下火焰——从水中喷出的气体正在燃烧。这是一场不需要氧气的大火，也是Kurt团队从未见过的一种现象。努玛称这场灾难是明显的破坏，而Kurt的任务是找到罪魁祸首。Tessa Franco是Novum Industria的首席执行官，她正忙于破坏世界各地的石油生产。她想推广其公司的新燃料电池，以取代“对化石燃料的疯狂依赖”，并因此是自己更加富裕。她令感世界上一半的主要油田都感染上了一种细菌，向世界上许多石油储备注入细菌……Kurt和船员们都幸存了下来，因为这部小说还有续集。
"Solid. . . Cussler fans know who will win in the end, but it’s always fun to watch the NUMA guys and gals implementing their clever plans."--Publishers Weekly
The latest maritime thriller in the NUMA series starring Kurt Austin (The Rising Sea, 2018, etc.) In 1968, the French submarine Minerve sinks without a trace in the Mediterranean. In the present day, an oil rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing and badly injuring many workers. Enter Kurt Austin, head of Special Projects at the National Underwater Marine Agency. Kurt leads a team that assists in marine emergencies, so they respond to the Mayday call and quickly find a stream of underwater flame—escaping gas is burning in the water, down "as far as the eye could see." It’s a fire that needs no oxygen, a phenomenon Kurt’s team has never seen. NUMA calls the disaster clear-cut sabotage, and Kurt’s assignment is to find the guilty party. Said party is Tessa Franco, CEO of Novum Industria, who is busily sabotaging oil production around the world. She wants to promote her new fuel cell to replace "this mad reliance on fossil fuels" and become even more stinking rich than she already is. She has "infected half the world’s major oil fields" by pumping oil-eating bacteria into many of the world’s oil reserves, rendering them useless. "She is the oil crisis," Kurt tells the president. Kurt’s and Tessa’s teams race to locate the Minerve, which may have critical genetic research Israel commissioned half a century ago. There are great action scenes underwater and on the surface, where Tessa’s seaplane, the Monarch, is almost as big as a 747. Rotten to the core, Tessa wants her lackeys to "get rid of Austin once and for all." Her odds look mighty good considering the firepower she brings to bear. Fast-paced, imaginative fun. May Kurt and crew survive, as there’s a good series to continue.
TOP 20 chart from The Bookseller for the week ending November 24, 2018, where SEA OF GREED by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown appears at position #19.
SEA OF GREED by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown appears at position #15 on the hardcover list; appears at position #6 on the iBookstore Fiction and Literature category.
Appears at position #10 on the weekly E-ranking.
Appears at position #17 on the Original Fiction TOP 20 chart.
SEA OF GREED: it appeared at positions #3 and #4 on the iBookstore list in Fiction and Literature category for the period from November 4 to November 18, at the hardcover frontlist at position #10 for the week ending November 10, 2018.
I attach the PW bestseller lists for the week ending December 1-2, 2018, where SEA OF GREED by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown appears at position #18 on the hardcover list and at position #16 on iBookstore list of fiction and literature category.
PW mass-market bestseller list, where SEA OF GREED by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown appears at position #3 for the week ending November 2, 2019.
This book for the week ending December 14, 2019 appears at position #11 on the PW mass-market frontlist.
SEA OF GREED enters its second month on the New York Times bestseller list at position #10.