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

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Cord L-29.A 1930-model American car that features front-wheel drive. <strong>Pitt</strong>'s example is a town car<br />

<strong>with</strong> an open front for the driver. The body is painted burgundy, while the fenders are a buff color that<br />

matches the leathered roof Over the passenger compartment. The Cord factory had stretched the chassis<br />

until it measures five <strong>and</strong> a half meters from front to rear bumper. Almost half the length is hood,<br />

beginning <strong>with</strong> a race car-type grill <strong>and</strong> ending <strong>with</strong> a sharply raked windshield. Best speed recorded for<br />

an L-29 was seventy seven miles an hour. Powered by a straight-eight engine <strong>with</strong> 115 horsepower.<br />

Weighs 2,120 kilometers. <strong>Pitt</strong> attempts to escape Ismad <strong>and</strong> his men by driving the Cord up a ski area<br />

access road. When that doesn't work, he turns the Cord down a ski slope. The two Mercedes are<br />

wrecked. At the end of the run, the Cord crashes into The base lodge.<br />

Corpus Christi Naval Air Station.Where the NUMA jet carrying <strong>Pitt</strong>, S<strong>and</strong>ecker <strong>and</strong> Sharp l<strong>and</strong>s<br />

as they begin the search for the Alex<strong>and</strong>ria Library. Located along the Gulf of Mexico in Texas.<br />

Don, Captain Louis.U.S. Army captain <strong>with</strong> the 486th Engineering Battalion. Orders Holus <strong>and</strong> <strong>Pitt</strong><br />

from Gongora Hill. Holus refuses.<br />

Daneborg.Village in Greenl<strong>and</strong> <strong>with</strong> a weather station that Gronquist orders Graham to contact after<br />

Nebula Flight 106 crashes.<br />

De Pineda, Alonzo.First European explorer to sail up the Rio Gr<strong>and</strong>e.<br />

Deep Rover.The submersible aboard the Sounder- Deep Rover is a two hundred forty-milimeter<br />

sphere divided by large O-rings <strong>and</strong> sits on a rectangular pod that holds 120-volt batteries. all sorts of<br />

strange appendages sprout from the sphere: thrusters <strong>and</strong> motors, oxygen cylinders, carbon dioxide<br />

removal canisters, docking mechanisms, camera systems <strong>and</strong> a scanning sonar unit. Has manipulators that<br />

extend in the front that are best described as mechanical h<strong>and</strong>s <strong>and</strong> arms. Used by <strong>Pitt</strong> <strong>and</strong> Giordino to<br />

find the wreck of the General Bravo.<br />

Delgado, Jorge.Radio operator Machado sends for after Ammar <strong>and</strong> his crew disappear.<br />

DeLorenzo, President.President of Mexico. Is aboard the Lady Flamborough when the ship is<br />

hijacked. Described as a short man in his early sixties, physically robust <strong>with</strong> wind-blown gray hair,<br />

mournful dark eyes <strong>and</strong> the suffering look of an intellectual confined to a mental institution.<br />

Demon Stalkers.The eighty-man group of Special Operations Force comm<strong>and</strong>os under HoUrs's

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