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Flood Tide
The fourteenth Dirk Pitt novel was published in hardcover in 1997 by Simon & Schuster and one can
safely assume in paperback by Pocket Books in 1998.Flood Tide follows Cussler tradition and begins in
the past.
A Chinese cargo ship loaded with priceless artwork sails into an intense storm that sinks her. Only two
people survive, and they wash up on an unknown shore.
We next meet an Immigration and Naturalization officer, Julia Lee, who serves as Pitt's love interest.
Lee is aboard a Chinese cargo ship loaded with illegal immigrants seeking a new life in the United
States.
Sentenced to die, she is sent to a lake in Washington State, where those too sick to become slaves are
killed.
Pitt arrives on a vacation in Washington, attempting to recuperate from the thrashing he suffered in
Shock Wave. Curious about strange affairs on the lake, he investigates the home of a rich industrialist
named Qin Shang. Videotaping the bottom of the lake, he finds it littered with dead bodies and
determines that Shang's lake retreat is nothing more than a human smuggling operation.
Rescuing a group of immigrants who are sentenced to die in the lake, he helps them escape in an old
Cris-Craft boat while being pursued by Shang's security guards. We learn that Shang's operation is the
front for a Chinese-government-approved plan to reduce population. And we learn that the S.S.United
States , a powerful cruise ship retired in the early 1960s, is being refitted in a shipyard near Hong Kong.
In addition, Shang has built a huge cargo port named Sungari in a bayou in Louisiana.
Pitt and Giordino are ordered to search the S.S.United States , and they enlist the help of a covert
corporation manned by ex-intelligence operatives. After examining the cruise ship, they are attacked by a
Chinese destroyer and manage to sink the aggressor.
Pitt returns home, and upon entering his aircraft hangar/home, he is attacked by assassins hired by