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| - Black Wind is an adventure novel by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler. This book centers on a relatively new character to the book series, Dirk Pitt, Jr.
The plot involves a North Korean plot to launch a biological warfare attack on the United States, creating an opportunity for the invasion and annexation of South Korea. Dirk Pitt Jr., his father, and his sister Summer must foil the plot and expose the plotters before a deadly toxin can be spread in California.
The story’s historical prologue is set in 1945. The commanding officer of the I-403, a Japanese I-400 class submarine, is given orders to launch a mysterious attack on the United States, a mission involving Japan’s notorious biological warfare group, Unit 731. The I-403 reaches America’s northwest coast, but is sunk before the mission can be carried out.
The story proper begins in the present-day Aleutian islands, where a team of CDC researchers, including beautiful field epidemiologist Sarah Matson, are unexpectedly infected by a deadly mystery illness; they are rescued by Dirk Pitt, Jr. (hereinafter Pitt Jr), who is nearby on a NUMA research vessel. Pitt Jr, with friend and coworker Jack Dahlgren, return to the site to investigate but their helicopter is downed by gunfire from a mysterious trawler. They survive, eventually determining that the illness resulted from a toxic compound of cyanide and smallpox.
In Japan, the U.S. ambassador is golfing with his British counterpart when he is assassinated by a sniper, Tongju. Tongju later assassinates the ambassador’s deputy and a semiconductor executive, leaving clues that appear to identify him as a member of a Japanese terrorist group.
Investigating the toxin, Pitt Jr consults marine-history researcher St. Julien Perlmutter, who finds records of the I-403. Pitt Jr and Dahlgren find and dive on the sunken I-403, but its mysterious ordnance has been removed. Meanwhile in the Philippines, Dirk Pitt senior (hereinafter referred to simply as Dirk) and his friend and colleague Al Giordano are also discovering forgotten Japanese ordnance that is poisoning marine life.
In South Korea Dae-jong Kang, a multi-millionaire industrialist, is secretly a North Korean sleeper agent who has been using corruption to press for rapid reunification of the divided peninsula. Kang reviews his plans with his assistant; they include framing a U.S. serviceman for the murder of a South Korean girl to foment unrest, while Tongju retrieves more of the WWII toxin from a second sunken submarine. Learning of the interference of Pitt Jr, Kang sends assassins to eliminate him.
The assassins fail to kill Pitt Jr and Matson in Seattle; Pitt Jr is just able to jump his recently-purchased 1958 Chrysler 300-D convertible aboard the Vashon Island Ferry, while Kang’s assassins crash their black Cadillac CTS.
NUMA researcher Hiram Yeager has discovered that the toxic ordnance was also carried by a Japanese submarine lost in the South China Sea. (en)
- Vento Nero è un romanzo scritto da Clive Cussler assieme al figlio Dirk Cussler, che parla delle avventure di Dirk Pitt, pubblicati dalla edizioni TEA. (it)
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