Does anyone have information on the plot on the next novel "The Navigator"?

Amazon listed the novel will be released in Hardcover - Jun 5, 2007.

Published by Putnam.

# ISBN-10: 0399154191
# ISBN-13: 978-0399154195

And that it is to be written by Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos.

That should be the new Kurt Austin book.

Paul joked at the convention that it would involve the Phoenicians and nanotechnology. By the time he was done, I didnt know if he was joking or not!

Paul also said at the convention (or he may have just told me - I honestly can't remember) that the actual title refers to a Phoencian statue that has some baring on the plot. At one point - one of the working titles was The Phoenician Affair - which I honestly thought was a cool title!! He said the publishers chose The Navigator from a list he and Clive submitted.

Thank you all for the information.

I can't wait for it :)

I can't wait!

Have a look on Amazon they now have a description of the book posted.
Sorry my computor will not let me copy it here prehaps someone else can try.
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Book Description

Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known as the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad Museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. Their first victim is a crooked antiquities dealer, murdered in cold blood. Their second very nearly is a UN investigator who, were it not for the timely assistance of Austin and Zavala, would now be at the bottom of a watery grave.
What's so special about this statue? Austin wonders. The search for answers will take the NUMA team on an astonishing odyssey through time and space, one that encompasses no less than the lost treasures of King Solomon, a mysterious packet of documents personally encoded by Thomas Jefferson, and a top secret scientific project that could change the world forever.

And that's before the surprises really begin . . .

Sounds good. Looking forward to it. As usual!

Hello all:

I was sitting here on a Saturday morning reading the CF's accounts of The Trial to Christi and came across the questions about The Navigator. The book is indeed about the Phoenicians, and centers on an ancient statue, but there's stuff about secret correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Meriwether Clarke, the American Philosophical Society, a long-lost artifact and the search for Ophir, locus of King Solomon's mines. (Whew!) I tried to work nanotechnology into the story but decided I didn't know what the hell it was.

Nanotech is old hat anyhow, as I understand it, soon to be eclipsed by the even more minute picotechnology, and beyond that, the dark realm of teenyweenytechnology.

Book is due out in June. See ya in Charleston!

Paul Kemprecos b:

Teenyweenytechnology yike:
crap just when I'd finally figured out THIS technology they go and change it on me :lol:

Thanks for the update Paul.................nice to *see* you around here too

I tried googling for teenyweenytechnology, but this is all I got ;

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I can only assume its so secret that only a handful of people with special clearances know about it. Thanks for the heads up Paul! :lol:

You expect us to believe that you've actually figured THIS technology out, Rob? j: Come On!

Thanks for the information Paul, look forward to reading it th:

Woah! How many famous authors join the ranks of lowly fans to give an update on their book?? That was great! A real-life celebrity. Thanks! w:

Wow, yike: you actually mean that the "AUTHORS" actually post here. Why didn't I see this sooner.

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Try Nanotechnology

yike: are you serious? Or just taking the piss? yike:

Its call "GOOGLE" dah. It may take you a while to read all the info but i garentee by the time you are done you will now more about nanotechnology the a nanotechnolgist does.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you were serious yike:

Now that's funny :lol:

Thanks fot the info on the new book. It's great you took the time to share it with us. w:

I wonder if this "UN investigator" just happens to be female. Anyone else think so?

If I had to take a guess, I'd say its a female. I can't wait for this one to come out!
Scott

I just saw the cover for the first time! Apologies if everyone else has already seen it!

http://www.amazon.com/Navigator-Clive-Cuss...4864545-0109545

beer:

Nice find, Andy! th:

Posting the pic is a much better idea. Onya Tony!

beer:

Great, now I have to add another book to my wish list. lets see it should be number 195 on the list. :lol:

Ever notice how fast time flies? - except when you're DYING to get one of the new books!!

Paul hit a homerun with Polar Shift and I expect The Navigator to be a Grandslam - but man-oh-man - the suspense in waiting till June is nerve racking!!

I wish I had a favor to call on him to get an advance look - but I actually owe him for his wonderful help in last year's Literary Idol - so I'll just keep biting my fingernails down and hope the Diet Dr. Pepper's do their magic in calming my nerves!!!

June June June June

Since the book is coming out in June, I will have something to look forward to besides the school term ending. I might have to save it so that I will have something to read if I have to evacuate since it will be the start of hurricane season and they are predicting a more active season due to El Nino. No- I will never be able to wait that long. I will probably reread it if i evacuate.

I'm not sure I can wait that long!!!!!!!!! Need book!!!!!!! :lol: :P

Time crawls when you don't have a book to read. Need brain! Can't wait for June!

hi new too this !!!!!!!!!!!! so how u all doing ???? have every book that they have done , cant wait for the new one , hugest cussler fan , good to read all ur posts , sum of them r really funny !!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to the Forum, Cliveboy! You've come to the right place. Post a hello in the general topics and tell us about yourself.

beer:

Welcome aboard cliveboy.......feel free to post on any topic th:

just a small word of caution though...there are alot of people here who get annoyed at the MSN way of talking...
ie: abbreviations of words..
you have a large amount of space to write your post and full words are very much appreciated.......thank-you

Welcome to the group cliveboy

Just occurred to me it is a little over two weeks till the release. party:

beer:

A couple of more spoilers from an Amazon review...

From Publishers Weekly
Fans of action-hero Kurt Austin of the National Underwater and Maritime Agency expect imaginative plotting, but it never comes down the chute in this seventh NUMA Files novel from bestseller Cussler and Shamus-winner Kemprecos (after Polar Shift). Austin and his team are hunting icebergs when they chance upon a pirate raid aimed at stealing a priceless Phoenician antiquity launched by a stereotypical megalomaniacal villain, Viktor Baltazar, who believes he's a descendant of King Solomon. Baltazar and Austin joust continually (once, literally!) over the antique, which may be connected to the lost ark of the covenant, Thomas Jefferson and the suspicious death of Meriwether Lewis. Sequences including the attempted human sacrifice of the requisite gorgeous female U.N. investigator are all too predictable, and the writing ("The Filipino's lips curved like slices of liverwurst in a frying pan") is often less than Cussler's best. (June)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Take the good with the bad. It'll be a good read no matter what. I just like this review for the extra hints at the story!

beer:

This June is going to rock.

a new CC book and Ghost Hunters is coming back to the Scifi channel! cop:

I saw on ebay a listing for the new book The Navigator. The listing will be closed in 10 hours. It was not a preorder. Does anybody know if they would release the book early? I am thinking on bidding for it at the last moments.

I can't wait. Need book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!