Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed By Clive Cussler with Craig ...

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Next, a university archaeological team is trapped in a limestone sinkhole. Pitt and Giordino appear to
launch a rescue effort. They succeed in the rescue, but when the archaeologists, including Shannon
Kelsey, one of Pitt's love interests, and Giordino are taken prisoners by rebels, Pitt is left to claw his way
out.
Free from the sinkhole, Pitt finds the rotor blade of his helicopter shattered and sets off tracking the
rebels and their prisoners on foot.
After being taken to a stone fortress in the mountain by one of the villains, Tupac Amaru, the hostages
are rescued by Pitt and escape in a helicopter owned by the rebels. Making its way out to sea with the
idea of landing on a NUMA research ship offshore, Pitt's helicopter is attacked by a Peruvian military
chopper which they fend off.
St. Julien Perlmutter has a large role in Inca Gold.
He helps Pitt in his search to find Drake's vessel, as well as advising him on artifact smuggling.
The primary villains of the tale, the Zolar family, are introduced and their profiteering from stolen
historical artifacts explored. Hiram Yaeger is featured, using the NUMA computer center to steer Pitt
and Giordino to locating the Conception, the ship carried away in the tidal wave.
Using a helicopter-mounted magnetometer, Pitt is successful in finding the Conception and locating a
box that contains the Drake Quipu, a series of ancient Inca records recorded on knotted ropes. Yaeger,
using his computer, deciphers the Drake Quipu and discovers that the lost treasure of Huascar is
probably buried in northern Mexico. The chase is on to locate the treasure before the Zolars.
As a cover for searching for the location of Huas 116 car's treasure, Pitt and Loren Smith, Pitt's other
love interest in the book, set off on a cross-country auto tour aboard Pitt's Pierce-Arrow. They stumble
upon the Box Car Cafe, owned by a former prospector named Cussler. As usual, Pitt forgets the name
when he tries to recall it.
Pitt and Giordino are pitted against the Zolars as they search for Huascar's treasure. They travel an
underground river in a small Hovercraft to rescue Gunn and Smith. A tribe of Indians seeking the return