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Mystery · 1997 · PG-13

Flood Tide

by Clive Cussler

Dirk Pitt battles a Chinese crime lord smuggling thousands of illegal immigrants into America

For14+GenreMysteryLength544 pagesRead time~14.5 hours

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Violence

A lot

Human trafficking violence; deaths of immigrants; combat

Language

Some

Moderate language

Sexual Content

Some

Sexual encounters in the Cussler tradition

Substance Use

Barely any

Moderate alcohol use

Emotional Intensity

Some

Human trafficking and exploitation as central theme

What this book is about

A 1997 Dirk Pitt novel centered on Qin Shang, a Chinese shipping tycoon who is using a massive Louisiana port development as cover for a vast human smuggling operation. When thousands of Chinese immigrants begin dying in transit, Pitt investigates and discovers a conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of U.S. and Chinese government.

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Human trafficking and mass deaths

Combat violence

Sexual content

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