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Testo di assaggio

CLIVE CUSSLER

NUMA 08

MEDUSA
(2009)

PROLOGUE:

THE PACIFIC OCEAN, 1848
IN ALL HIS YEARS SAILING THE WORLD'S OCEANS, CAPTAIN Horatio Dobbs had never known the sea to be so barren. The captain paced the quarterdeck of the New Bedford whaling ship Princess, gray eyes darting like twin lighthouse beams to every point of the compass. The Pacific was a disk-shaped blue desert. No spouts feathered the horizon. No grinning porpoises danced off the bow. No flying fish skittered above the wave tops. It was as if life in the sea had ceased to exist.
...in desperation, he began to wonder if his ship was cursed. He pushed the dangerous thought from his mind, strode over to the ship's cook, who was cleaning his stove, and said, "Play us a song with your fiddle."
Hoping to lift morale, the captain had urged the cook to play his fiddle at sunset every day, but the jolly music only seemed to highlight the sour mood aboard ship.
"I usually wait 'til sundown," the cook said glumly.
"Not today, cook. See if you can fiddle up a whale.
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