Flood Tide

For other uses, see Flood tide (disambiguation).

Flood Tide
Hardcover first Edition
Author	Clive Cussler
Cover artist	Paul Bacon
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Dirk Pitt Novels
Genre	Adventure, Techno-thriller novel
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Publication date	September 27, 1997
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	511 pp (Hardcover edition)
ISBN	0-684-80298-8
OCLC	37310720
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 21
LC Class	PS3553.U75 F58 1997
Preceded by	Shock Wave
Followed by	Atlantis Found

Flood Tide is an adventure novel by Clive Cussler. This is the 14th book featuring the author’s primary protagonist, Dirk Pitt. He must rescue illegal immigrants from a Chinese tycoon and locate the bones of the Peking Man, the famous lost example of Homo erectus. This book also introduces Juan Cabrillo and some of the Corporation of the future Oregon Files series of books.

Characters in "Flood Tide"

Dirk Pitt – Special Projects Director for the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA)
Admiral James Sandecker – Chief Director of NUMA
Al Giordino – Assistant Special Projects Director for NUMA.
Rudi Gunn – Director of Logistics for NUMA.
Julia Marie Lee - Undercover agent with the International Affairs Division of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. Born in San Francisco. Has dove-gray eyes, blue-black hair, and Asian features. Pitt saves her after being thrown into Orion Lake to die of drowning by Shang's henchmen.
Qin Shang - The greedy, evil, Chinese shipping magnate who smuggles illegal Chinese immigrants into countries around the world; including the United States.
Bannon

Trivia

In July 2005, Major Casey Scharven, a U.S. Air Force officer stationed in Iraq, got his picture taken while sitting on Saddam Hussein's throne and holding a copy of Flood Tide.

Release Details

1997, United States, Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-684-80298-8, 1997, Hardcover.
2002, United States, Pocket Books New ED Edition, ISBN 0-7434-4977-0, September 2, 2002, Paperback.
2003, United States, Pocket Books, ISBN 0-7434-6730-2, January 1, 2003, Paperback.
2010, United States, Pocket Star Books, ISBN 978-1-4391-4811-2, January 1, 2010 Paperback.

Dirk Pitt Novels

The Mediterranean Caper Iceberg Raise the Titanic! Vixen 03 Night Probe! Pacific Vortex! Deep Six Cyclops Treasure Dragon Sahara Inca Gold Shock Wave Flood Tide Atlantis Found Valhalla Rising Trojan Odyssey Black Wind Treasure of Khan Arctic Drift Crescent Dawn Poseidon's Arrow Havana Storm

Works by Clive Cussler

Dirk Pitt Adventures	The Mediterranean Caper (1973) Iceberg (1975) Raise the Titanic! (1976) Vixen 03 (1978) Night Probe! (1981) Pacific Vortex! (1983) Deep Six (1984) Cyclops (1986) Treasure (1988) Dragon (1990) Sahara (1992) Inca Gold (1994) Shock Wave (1996) Flood Tide (1997) Atlantis Found (1999) Valhalla Rising (2001) Trojan Odyssey (2003) Black Wind (2004) Treasure of Khan (2006) Arctic Drift (2008) Crescent Dawn (2010) Poseidon's Arrow (2012) Havana Storm (2014)

The NUMA Files	Serpent (1999) Blue Gold (2000) Fire Ice (2002) White Death (2003) Lost City (2004) Polar Shift (2005) The Navigator (2007) Medusa (2009) Devil's Gate (2011) The Storm (2012) Zero Hour (2013) Ghost Ship (2014) The Pharaoh's Secret (2015)

Oregon Files	Golden Buddha (2003) Sacred Stone (2004) Dark Watch (2005) Skeleton Coast (2006) Plague Ship (2008) Corsair (2009) The Silent Sea (2010) The Jungle (2011) Mirage (2013) Piranha (2015) The Emperor's Revenge (2016)

Isaac Bell Adventures	The Chase (2007) The Wrecker (2009) The Spy (2010) The Race (2011) The Thief (2012) The Striker (2013) The Bootlegger (2014) The Assassin (2015) The Gangster (2016)

Fargo Adventures	Spartan Gold (2009) Lost Empire (2010) The Kingdom (2011) The Tombs (2012) The Mayan Secrets (2013 The Eye of Heaven (2014) The Solomon Curse (2015)

Non fiction	The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks (1996) The Sea Hunters II: Diving the World's Seas for Famous Shipwrecks (2002)

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