Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler

Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler

ON SALE 3.19.19 AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE INDIEBOUND iBOOKS BAM ➞ START READING ➞ 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 CELTIC 11 12 13 EMPIRE 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 S28 N29 9780735218994_CelticEmpire_TX.indd i 12/11/18 12:11 PM 01 TITLES BY CLIVE CUSSLER 02 03 DIRK PITT® ADVENTURES SAM AND REMI FARGO ADVENTURES 04 Odessa Sea (with Dirk Cussler) The Gray Ghost (with Robin Burcell) 05 Havana Storm (with Dirk Cussler) The Romanov Ransom Poseidon’s Arrow (with Dirk Cussler) 06 (with Robin Burcell) Crescent Dawn (with Dirk Cussler) 07 Pirate (with Robin Burcell) Arctic Drift (with Dirk Cussler) 08 The Solomon Curse Treasure of Khan (with Dirk Cussler) (with Russell Blake) 09 Black Wind (with Dirk Cussler) The Eye of Heaven (with Russell Blake) 10 Trojan Odyssey The Mayan Secrets (with Thomas Perry) 11 Valhalla Rising The Tombs (with Thomas Perry) 12 Atlantis Found The Kingdom (with Grant Blackwood) 13 Flood Tide Lost Empire (with Grant Blackwood) 14 Shock Wave Spartan Gold (with Grant Blackwood) 15 Inca Gold Sahara 16 ISAAC BELL ADVENTURES 17 Dragon The Cutthroat (with Justin Scott) 18 Treasure The Gangster (with Justin Scott) Cyclops 19 The Assassin (with Justin Scott) Deep Six 20 The Bootlegger (with Justin Scott) Pacific Vortex! 21 The Striker (with Justin Scott) Night Probe! The Thief (with Justin Scott) 22 Vixen 03 The Race (with Justin Scott) 23 Raise the Titanic! The Spy (with Justin Scott) 24 Iceberg The Wrecker (with Justin Scott) 25 The Mediterranean Caper The Chase 26 27 28S 29N 9780735218994_CelticEmpire_TX.indd ii 12/11/18 12:11 PM 01 02 KURT AUSTIN ADVENTURES OREGON® FILES (cont.) 03 Novels from The NUMA ® Files The Jungle (with Jack Du Brul) 04 Sea of Greed (with Graham Brown) The Silent Sea (with Jack Du Brul) 05 The Rising Sea (with Graham Brown) Corsair (with Jack Du Brul) 06 Nighthawk (with Graham Brown) Plague Ship (with Jack Du Brul) 07 The Pharaoh’s Secret Skeleton Coast (with Jack Du Brul) (with Graham Brown) 08 Dark Watch (with Jack Du Brul) Ghost Ship (with Graham Brown) 09 Sacred Stone (with Craig Dirgo) Zero Hour (with Graham Brown) 10 Golden Buddha (with Craig Dirgo) The Storm (with Graham Brown) 11 Devil’s Gate (with Graham Brown) 12 Medusa (with Paul Kemprecos) NONFICTION 13 The Navigator (with Paul Kemprecos) Built for Adventure: The Classic 14 Polar Shift (with Paul Kemprecos) Automobiles of Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Lost City (with Paul Kemprecos) 15 Built to Thrill: More Classic White Death (with Paul Kemprecos) 16 Automobiles from Clive Cussler Fire Ice (with Paul Kemprecos) and Dirk Pitt 17 Blue Gold (with Paul Kemprecos) The Sea Hunters (with Craig Dirgo) 18 Serpent (with Paul Kemprecos) The Sea Hunters II (with Craig Dirgo) 19 Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed 20 (with Craig Dirgo) OREGON® FILES 21 Shadow Tyrants (with Boyd Morrison) 22 CHILDREN’S BOOKS Typhoon Fury (with Boyd Morrison) 23 The Adventures of Vin Fiz The Emperor’s Revenge 24 (with Boyd Morrison) The Adventures of Hotsy Totsy 25 Piranha (with Boyd Morrison) 26 Mirage (with Jack Du Brul) 27 S28 N29 9780735218994_CelticEmpire_TX.indd ii 12/11/18 12:11 PM 9780735218994_CelticEmpire_TX.indd iii 12/11/18 12:11 PM 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 CLIVE 15 16 CUSSLER 17 18 AND DIRK CUSSLER 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28S 29N 9780735218994_CelticEmpire_TX.indd iv 12/11/18 12:11 PM 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 CELTIC 14 15 16 17 EMPIRE 18 19 20 21 A DIRK PITT NOVEL 22 23 24 25 26 27 S28 G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS New York N29 9780735218994_CelticEmpire_TX.indd iv 12/11/18 12:11 PM 9780735218994_CelticEmpire_TX.indd v 12/11/18 12:11 PM 01 02 03 04 G. P. Putnam’s Sons Publishers Since 1838 05 An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 06 375 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014 07 08 09 Copyright © 2019 by Sandecker, RLLLP 10 Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for 11 buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws 12 by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin 13 to continue to publish books for every reader. 14 Library of Congress Cataloging‑ in‑ Publication Data 15 Names: Cussler, Clive, author. | Cussler, Dirk, author. 16 Title: Celtic empire / Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler. 17 Description: New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [2019] | Series: Dirk Pitt adventure; 25 18 Identifiers: LCCN 2018056946| ISBN 9780735218994 (hardcover) | 19 ISBN 9780735219007 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Pitt, Dirk (Fictitious character)— Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION 20 / Action & Adventure. | FICTION / Suspense. | FICTION / Thrillers. | 21 GSAFD: Adventure fiction. | Suspense fiction. Classification: LCC PS3553.U75 C45 2019 | DDC 813/. 54— dc23 22 LC record available at https:// lccn.loc.gov/ 2018056946 23 Printed in the United States of America 24 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 25 Book design by Katy Riegel 26 27 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, 28S living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. 29N 9780735218994_CelticEmpire_TX.indd vi 12/11/18 12:11 PM 01 02 03 04 05 CAST OF CHARACTERS 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 1334 B.C.E 13 14 Meritaten Egyptian princess, daughter of Pharaoh. 15 Gaythelos Meritaten’s husband. 16 Osarseph Prophet aided by Meritaten. Ahrwn Osarseph’s brother. 17 18 2020 19 20 NUMA TEam 21 Dirk Pitt Director of the National Underwater and Marine 22 Agency. 23 Al Giordino Director of Underwater Technology, NUMA. 24 Rudi Gunn Deputy Director, NUMA. 25 Zerri Pochinski Pitt’s longtime secretary. Michael Cruz Marine engineer and salvage expert, NUMA. 26 Dr. Rodney Zeibig Archeologist, NUMA. 27 Summer Pitt NUMA Special Projects director and daughter of S28 Dirk Pitt. N29 9780735218994_CelticEmpire_TX.indd vi 12/11/18 12:11 PM 9780735218994_CelticEmpire_TX.indd vii 12/11/18 12:11 PM 01 Dirk Pitt, Jr. NUMA Special Projects director and son of Dirk 02 Pitt. 03 Hiram Yaeger Computer Resources director, NUMA. James Sandecker U.S. Vice President and former Director of 04 NUMA. 05 06 OFFICIALS, POLITICIanS, anD BUSINESSPEopLE 07 Loren Smith- Pitt Dirk Pitt’s wife and congresswoman from 08 Colorado. 09 Senator Stanton Bradshaw Chairman of the Senate Committee 10 on Environment and Public Works. 11 Evanna McKee CEO of BioRem Global Limited. 12 Audrey McKee Field manager with BioRem Global Limited and daughter of Evanna McKee. 13 Rachel Associate of Evanna McKee’s. 14 Ross FBI agent protecting Elise Aguilar. 15 Abigail Brown Former prime minister of Australia. 16 Gavin Operative working for Evanna McKee. 17 Ainsley Operative working for Evanna McKee. 18 Irene Operative working for Evanna McKee. 19 HIStoRIanS, EXPERTS, anD MEDICAL PROFESSIonaLS 20 Elise Aguilar Scientist with United States Agency for 21 International Development in El Salvador. 22 Phil Scientist with United States Agency for International 23 Development in El Salvador. 24 Rondi Salvadoran villager aiding the U.S. scientists. 25 Dr. Stephen Nakamura Epidemiologist, University of 26 Maryland. 27 Dr. Susan Montgomery Head of the Environmental Health 28S Laboratory, Centers for Disease Control. Dr. Miles Perkins Scientist, Inverness Research Laboratory. 29N 9780735218994_CelticEmpire_TX.indd viii 12/11/18 12:11 PM Dr. Harrison Stanley Emeritus professor of Egyptology from 01 Cambridge University. 02 Riki Sadler Biochemist and archeologist and daughter of 03 Evanna McKee. 04 Dr. Frasier McKee Biochemist and deceased husband of 05 Evanna McKee. Aziz Egyptian Antiquities Authority agent. 06 St. Julian Perlmutter Nautical historian and longtime friend of 07 Pitt’s. 08 Byron Lab Research director, Centers for Disease Control. 09 Dr. Eamon Brophy Former archeology department head, 10 Dublin University. 11 OthER 12 13 Manjeet Dhatt Father of ill boy in Mumbai. 14 Pratima Dhatt Mother of ill boy in Mumbai. Ozzie Ackmadan Proprietor of the Abu Simbel Inn. 15 Friar Thomas Franciscan Friary of Killarney. 16 Captain Ron Posey Captain of the Mayweather. 17 Gauge Helmsman of the Mayweather. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 S28 N29 9780735218994_CelticEmpire_TX.indd viii 12/11/18 12:11 PM 9780735218994_CelticEmpire_TX.indd ix 12/11/18 12:11 PM 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 CELTIC 11 12 13 EMPIRE 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 S28 N29 9780735218994_CelticEmpire_TX.indd xi 12/11/18 12:11 PM 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 PROLOGUE 12 13 14 NILE FLIGHT 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 S28 N29 9780735218994_CelticEmpire_TX.indd 1 12/11/18 12:11 PM 01 02 03 04 05 Memphis, Egypt 06 1334 B.C.E. 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 ails of grief drifted over the city like a black aria. 14 The mud brick dwellings burst with anguish, as the 15 Wsorrow swirled into the night desert. But the winds 16 ferried more than just the cries of mourning. 17 They carried the stench of death. 18 A mysterious scourge had descended upon the land, striking 19 at nearly every household. The young were most afflicted, but 20 not exclusively. The claws of death had grasped even the royal 21 family, snatching the Pharaoh himself in their cold grip.

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