| Medusa | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Clive Cussler & Paul Kemprecos |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English (American English) |
| Series | NUMA Files |
| Genre(s) | Thriller novel |
| Publisher | Putnam |
| Publication date | June 2, 2009 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover)[1] |
| Pages | 464 pp (first edition, hardcover) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0399155651 (first edition, hardcover) |
| Preceded by | The Navigator (2007) |
| Followed by | Devil's Gate (2011) |
Medusa is a Kurt Austin novel, of the series NUMA Files. This book is the eighth of that series. The hardcover edition was released June 2, 2009. Other editions of this book were released on other dates.[2]
This novel centers around the exploits of Clive Cussler's characters Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala. These two and other members of NUMA repsond to several mysterious incidents. One is the sudden disappearance of an underwater lab conducting experiments on a rare jellyfish (the Blue Medusa), an attack on a bathysphere that almost kills passenger Zavala and an attempt to kidnap a Chinese scientist at a remote lab in the Florida Keys. The NUMA team seeks to discover who is behind these incidents. They discover a criminal organziation based in China that is conducting unethical medical experiments on humans and intends to create a deadly virus that it will threaten to unleash in an attempt to blackmail the world into surrendering to its whims.
As of December 2011 sixty-nine customer reviews of Medusa were on the Amazon.com website. The book was given an average of 3 1/2 stars out of a possible five by reviewers.[3]