Adventure thriller

Sea of Greed

by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown

Book 16 of the NUMA Files series

480 pages · First published 2018

When explosions destroy three oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and oil fields around the world mysteriously stop producing, Kurt Austin and the NUMA team are called upon to investigate a crisis threatening the global economy. Their search leads to Tessa Franco, a brilliant alternative-energy billionaire whose revolutionary technology could end the world's dependence on oil. But the discovery of an engineered bacterium that consumes petroleum points toward a dangerous conspiracy connected to two submarines that vanished in the Mediterranean decades earlier. Pursued by hired killers, Austin must uncover the truth behind the lost submarines and stop a biological threat before the world's energy supply collapses. Reach for this when you want maritime action, scientific intrigue, and a race to uncover the dangerous ambition behind a global crisis.