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Cover artist
  
Paul Bacon

Language
  
English

Originally published
  
1990

Preceded by
  
Treasure

Publisher
  
Simon & Schuster

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Country
  
United States

Series
  
Dirk Pitt Novels

Author
  
Clive Cussler

Followed by
  
Sahara

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Publication date
  
1990 (Hardcover) 1991 (Paperback)

Media type
  
Print (Hardcover, Paperback)

Genres
  
Adventure fiction, Techno-thriller

Similar
  
Clive Cussler books, Dirk Pitt Undersea adventure books, Fiction books

Dragon is an adventure novel by Clive Cussler. This is the 10th book featuring the author’s primary protagonist, Dirk Pitt. In 1945, a B-29 bomber carrying a third nuclear bomb to Japan is shot down over the sea off the coast of Japan. In 1993, terrorists want to restore Japan's former glory by taking out the United States economy by planting nuclear bombs.

Contents

Characters in Dragon

  • 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.
  • Hideki Suma - The Japanese leader to the "Kaiten Project", he plans to blackmail the world powers into treating Japan as the leading world power by secretly planting nuclear bomb cars inside the major cities of the world.
  • Major Charles Dennings - Dennings Demons, Pilot
  • Captain Irv Stanton - Dennings Demons, Bombardier
  • Captain Mort Stromp - Dennings Demons, Co-Pilot
  • Lieutenant Joseph Arnold - Dennings Demons, Navigator
  • Navy Commander Hank Byrnes - Dennings Demons, Weapons Engineer
  • General Harold Morrison - Special deputy to General Leslie Groves
  • General Leslie Groves - Head of the Manhattan Project
  • Sergeant Robert Mosley - Dennings Demons, Flight Engineer
  • Lieutenant Junior Grade Sato Okinaga - Japanese Patrol Pilot
  • Captain Arne Korvold - Captain, Narvik
  • Oscar Steen - Chief Officer, Narvik
  • Olaf Andersson - Asst. Chief Engineer, Narvik, Divine Star Boarding Party
  • Clive Cussler – This was the first novel in which the author made a cameo appearance.

    • Release Details

  • 1990, United States, Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-671-62619-1, 1990, Hardcover.
  • 1991, United States, Pocket Books (Revised Edition), ISBN 0-671-74276-0, July 1, 1991, Paperback.
  • 1993, United States, LGF, ISBN 2-253-06382-7, January 1, 1993, Paperback.

    • References

    Dragon (Cussler novel) Wikipedia
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