A Book Report on Serpent, a Novel Co-Written by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos Essay

Clive Cussler s SerpentCharacters Kurt Austin- The leader of a courageous NUMA exploration team and the main character of the book Joe Zavala- Kurt s best friend and side-kick, he is always there to back up Kurt Nina Kirov- A beautiful marine archaeologist rescued by Kurt Austin from the terrorists Don Halcon- The evil Texas industrialist who is trying to create a Spanish uprise in the western US. Serpent stars the heroes, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala, who are members of the NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) exploration team. The story starts off on the deck of the Andrea Doria, an Italian luxury liner and the queen of the Italian fleet. Inside the ships cargo hold is a stone that holds the secret to murders of archaeologists forty-some years in the future. All is quiet on the decks of the Doria until it is rammed by another boat, the Stockholm. After it is rammed, a young waiter onboard the ship Doria, named Angelo Donatelli, is asked by a friend to find a car jack to help pry free his wife, who was trapped on the ship. While down in the cargo hold looking for the car jack, Donatelli sees an armed group of murderers kill a group of guards guarding an armored truck. The same armored truck that contains the stone. The bodies of the guards are shoved into the armored car and the car is shut. The car and the gruesome murders are forgotten about as the ship hits the bottom of the icy sea off Nantucket.Forty-some years later on the Moroccon coast, Dr. Nina Kirov discovers a Mayan artifact dating from the Pre-Columbian era off the coast of Morocco. This artifact gives evidence that there was contact between Central and Southern America and Europe before Columbus. She made sketches of her findings and loaded them into her personal file at a university. She visits the site one more time and comes back...

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