Dragon (Dirk Pitt novel)

Dragon is the tenth book in the NUMA Series featuring the character Dirk Pitt, by Clive Cussler. It is an adventure techno-thriller novel. It was first published by Simon & Schuster in hardcover form in 1990 and then by Pocket Books in paperback on July 1, 1991. LGF published a different paperback edition on January 1, 1993.

In 1945, a B-29 bomber carrying a third atomic bomb to Japan is shot down over the sea off the coast of Japan. Several years later in 1993, a group of Japanese terrorists uncover the bomber's wreckage and plot to use the atomic bomb to restore Japan's former glory through nuclear blackmail.


 * Creator Cameo: This is the first of many cameo appearances by Clive Cussler within his novels.