Sea of Greed (U)

The World's Oil Supply Is Vanishing, The Stock Market Is Plummeting, And The Key To Saving The Future Seems To Be A Baffling Historical Mystery. Can The Numa Crew Crack It In Time? Sea Of Greed Is The Suspenseful New Numa Files Novels From The #1 New York Times-bestselling Grand Master Of Adventure. After An Explosion In The Gulf Of Mexico Destroys Three Oil Rigs Trying To Revive A Dying Field, Kurt Austin And The Numa Special Projects Team Are Tapped By The President Of The United States To Find Out What's Gone Wrong. 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. But Is She An Environmental Hero...or A Rogue Genetic Engineer? The Numa Crew Discovers That The Oil Fields Are Infected With Bacteria That Are Consuming The Oil Before It Can Be Pumped Out Of The Earth--a Bacteria Originally Lost Decades Ago When Two Submarines Vanished In The Mediterranean. With Hired Killers On His Trail, Can Kurt Austin Locate A Submarine That's Remained Hidden For More Than Fifty Years? And Even If He Can, Can The Biological Terror That's Been Unleashed Be Stopped?