Three kittens and their beautiful mother, Dutchess are captured by Edgar the butler who intends to drown them and claim their mistress's fortune. But the plans are foiled and the cats are rescued by Thomas O'Malley and his alley cat gang.
In his latest romp, Cussler is concerned with an ancient Phoenician statue called the Navigator, which was stolen from a Baghdad museum in 900 BCE. The compelling, well-organized plot--taken from a template that works--includes such disparate but ultimately workable elements as a foiled hijacking, a secret scientific project, pirates, a beautiful woman, and the heroic machinations of the NUMA sleuths.
Three kittens and their beautiful mother, Duchess, are catnapped by Edgar the butler, who intends to drown them and claim their mistress's fortune. But his plans are foiled and the cats are rescued by Thomas O'Malley and his alley cat gang.
