Cyclops (novel)

Cyclops is the 8th book in the Dirk Pitt series by Clive Cussler. It is an adventure techno-thriller novel first published in hardcover by Simon & Scuster in 1986, with a paperback version published by Pocket Books in December of that same year; Random House re-published the book on June 23, 1987, and Pocket Books published a reissue on November 15, 1989, with another mass market paperback release on April 30, 2019. An audiobook was released on Novermber 14, 2019.

A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp, which drifts toward Florida and crashlands, nearly claiming the lives of several witnesses - including our hero, Dirk Pitt. While investigating, Dirk makes a gruesome discovery: a crew of dead Soviet cosmonauts were onboard the wreck. From there, Dirk Pitt discovers that a covert group of U.S. industrialists have established a colony on the moon, and that the Russians plan to retaliate in Cuba—and only he can stop this international conspiracy!