austin, kurt (fictitious character)

Kurt Austin and the special assignments team of the National Underwater & Marine Agency are called upon to intervene when a billionaire tycoon who plans to proclaim himself czar of Russia attempts to divert attention from his activities by setting off pockets of methane hydrate, known as "fire ice," along the coast of the United States.

"The tenth entry in the NUMA Files series, by the author of ZERO HOUR and THE STORM"--.

Archaeologist Nina Kirov, attacked after making an astonishing discovery, teams up with Kurt Austin, leader of the National Underwater Marine Agency, to try and learn why archaeologists around the world are being brutally murdered, and together they discover an ancient secret that will challenge some of America's basic historical beliefs.

A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores - when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster - when their boat explodes. What is happening in this part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical power, and an unimaginably audacious plan to extort the world's major nations. The penalty for refusal? The destruction of their greatest cities.

Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA's Special Assignments Team, is called in to stop a shadowy multinational corporation that is trying to gain control of the seas and killing anyone who tries to stop it.

Archaeologist Nina Kirov, attacked after making an astonishing discovery, teams up with Kurt Austin, leader of the National Underwater Marine Agency, to try and learn why archaeologists around the world are being brutally murdered, and together they discover an ancient secret that will challenge some of America's basic historical beliefs.

Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Assignments Team face a daunting task--saving all life on Earth--when an anti-globalization group decides to send a message to the world's industrialized nations by artificially triggering a polar shift.

Kurt Austin and the NUMA team have their work cut out for them when people are killed trying to harvest an enzyme that affects longevity that was found at the bottom of the Atlantic, while scientists in a remote Greek village are disappearing one by one, and a body turns up frozen high in the Alps.

Kurt Austin and the NUMA team have their work cut out for them when people are killed trying to harvest an enzyme found at the bottom of the Atlantic that affects longevity; while scientists in a remote Greek village are disappearing one by one, and a body turns up frozen high in the Alps.

Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are off on a high-stakes adventure when the NUMA team is assigned to find the link between a missing top-secret, government-sponsored undersea lab that had been testing viral weaponry and an attack on a bathysphere near Bermuda that nearly killed Zavala and everyone else aboard.