FREE DEEP FIRE RISING PDF DuBrul Jack | 496 pages | 01 Feb 2004 | Penguin Putnam Inc | 9780451411181 | English | New York, NY, United States Editions of Deep Fire Rising by Jack Du Brul Hired to lead the excavation of caverns deep beneath Area 51, Philip Mercer finds himself drilling straight into the epicenter of an age-old conspiracy. Now, with icebergs floating through the South Pacific and a thermonuclear bomb set to destroy an island paradise, the stage is set for Armageddon—and it is up to Philip Mercer and the beautiful, mysterious Tisa Deep Fire Rising to prevent a cataclysm beyond imagination. Combining his extensive knowledge of geology, mining and technology with relentless action sequences and exotic locales, Du Brul's latest after River of Ruin is pages of nonstop, over-the-top adventure. Protagonist Dr. Philip Mercer, a wealthy geologist, "sometime" consultant and field agent for Deep Fire Rising times "when the worlds of science and terror collide," is charged with overseeing the installation of a temporary Deep Fire Rising waste holding tank at Nevada's infamous Area But after Mercer is nearly killed by assassins while on a Vegas furlough and then inexplicably saved by the stunningly beautiful Tisa Nguyen, he learns of a secret group called the Order. Headquartered in a Tibetan monastery, the Order can supposedly predict disastrous world events using an ancient Deep Fire Rising, but a faction of the Order with sinister plans for world Deep Fire Rising now jeopardizes the planet's survival. As Mercer barely escapes each near-death situation, well-drawn secondary characters like his one-legged, hard-drinking year-old best friend, Harry help ground this adrenaline-drenched tale. Though not as suave as James Bond or as scrappy as Indiana Jones, smart, resilient Mercer is a savvy adventure hero for the new millennium. Jack Du Brul got everything right in this installment of the Philip Mercer series. Packed with adventure from cover to cover, yet beautifully written, with more soul than I remember in any of the previous books. Publisher Description. Customer Reviews See All. The Jungle. The Silent Sea. Dark Watch. Skeleton Coast. The Lightning Stones. Vulcan's Forge. Charon's Landing. The Medusa Stone. Pandora's Curse. Deep Fire Rising by Du Brul, Jack Audible Premium Plus. Cancel anytime. Seventy years ago, Chester Bowie, a genius driven to madness, Deep Fire Rising the mystery of how a weapon of unimaginable lethality allowed one man and his small army to conquer so much of the ancient world. The secret, however, died with Bowie in a fiery disaster that was no accident. By: Jack Du Brul. It begins at a Paris auction house, with a favor granted by an old high school friend to geologist Philip Mercer: the opportunity to buy a rare diary written during the French attempt at digging the Panama Canal. But Mercer isn't the only one who wants it. Three Chinese assassins have been dispatched to get it, forcing Mercer into a subterranean game of cat Deep Fire Rising mouse that takes him from the hellish maze of l'empire de la mort and through the sewers of Paris. Geologist Phillip Mercer finds a dead body hot with radiation in a Deep Fire Rising U. Deep Fire Rising base under the ice. Mercer is almost killed when the old base is set on fire. Geo-Research hustles Mercer and company out of Greenland, and Mercer vows to Deep Fire Rising out why. Surviving a bomb on the plane taking them back to Iceland, Mercer, the beautiful Anika Klein, Deep Fire Rising their fellow explorers search for the shelter of an ice cavern until they can be rescued and that's when they learn the truth. 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Tracking a notorious Chinese smuggler's activities leads Dirk Pitt from Washington State to Louisiana, where his quarry is constructing a huge shipping port in the middle of nowhere. Why has he chosen this unlikely location? The trail then leads to the race to find the site of the mysterious sinking of the ship that Chiang Kai-shek filled with treasure when he fled China inincluding the legendary boxes containing the bones of Peking Man that had vanished at the beginning of World War I. A hundred and forty years after a British ship wrecks on the way to an Australian penal colony and the survivors discover diamonds on the tropical island where they wash up, Maeve Fletcher, Deep Fire Rising of their descendants, is stranded on an island in Antarctica with a party of passengers after their cruise ship seemingly abandons them. Dirk Pitt, on an expedition to find the source of a deadly plague that is killing dolphins and seals in the Weddell Sea, finds Maeve and the passengers and rescues them from death. During a trek to Loch Ness, Scotland, a young Charles Darwin encounters a mysterious and terrifying creature that provides a spark for his evolutionary theory. Almost years later and across the Channel in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is under attack. Only through detective work, intuition, and a judicious application of high-tech weaponry does former Army combat engineer Tyler Locke prevent a massacre. Tyler Locke's routine commute on a Washington State ferry is interrupted by Deep Fire Rising chilling anonymous call claiming that his father has been kidnapped and that a truck bomb is set to detonate on board in twenty minutes. When Tyler, a former army combat engineer, Deep Fire Rising the bomb on the boat's car deck, he's stunned to find classical languages expert Stacy Benedict waiting for him. She's received the same threat and her sister has also been taken. The trail leads them to a brilliant billionaire in the alternative-energy field. Her goal is the end of the oil age; her company has spent billions developing the worlds' most advanced fuel-cell systems.