Cyclops (Clive Cussler novel)

Infobox Book |
name = Cyclops


image_caption = Hardcover 1st 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
release_date = 1986
media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 475 pp (Hardcover edition)
isbn = ISBN 0-671-50374-X
preceded_by = Deep Six
followed_by = Treasure

"Cyclops" is an action-adventure novel by Clive Cussler. This is the 8th book featuring the author’s primary protagonist, Dirk Pitt. A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts toward Florida with a crew of dead men -- Soviet cosmonauts. DIRK PITT discovers a shocking scheme: a covert group of U.S. industrialists has put a colony on the moon, a secret base they will defend at any cost. Threatened in space, the Russians are about to strike a savage blow in Cuba -- and only DIRK PITT can stop them. From a Cuban torture chamber to the cold ocean depths, Pitt is racing to defuse an international conspiracy that threatens to shatter the earth!

Characters in "Cyclops"

*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.
*Foss Gly - Arizona-born criminal who Pitt had encountered before in Night Probe!, and whom Charles Sarveux wrongly presumed as dead from a rigged aircraft

Release Details

*1986, United States, Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-671-50374-X, 1986, Hardcover
*1986, United States, Pocket Books, ISBN 99943-2-097-1, December 1986, Paperback.
*1987, United States, Random House Value Publishing, ISBN 0-517-65338-9, June 23, 1987, Hardcover.
*1989, United States, Pocket Books Reissue, ISBN 0-671-70464-8, November 15, 1989, Paperback.