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It all goes with the Cussler image of an author who was once described as following the beat of a drummer who was playing in a field on the other side of town.

Then the intruder passed into a scene that he had envisioned in his mind a hundred times and that could only be described in a novel.

InIceberg , at least as it was originally published, Kristjan and his sister Kirsti were described as identical twins-of course, that is impossible for siblings of different sexes.

The primary villain, Foss Gly, who appears in a later Pitt novel, is described in detail.

InInca Gold , he's the owner of the Box Car Cafe and described as a tall man in his early sixties, with gray hair and a white beard.

His ships are described as decrepit rust buckets and feature a big yellow M painted on the smoke funnels.

His chair was literally burned out from under him, and his corpse is described as a scorched form curled up in a fetus position, the knees drawn up to the chin and the arms pulled tightly against the sides.

The company is described as a very reputable and very fine British firm.

A flight attendant with Bristol Airlines, she is described as having absorbing violet eyes framed by neatly brushed red hair.

Nineteen years old, she is described as big boned and large-breasted with a freckled face.

Created by microbiologist John Vetterly, QD is described as an artificial form of life that in turn was capable of producing a disease strain that was and still is quite unknown.

Beatty is described as having blue-green eyes over a salt-and-pepper beard.

Sixty-six years old, he is described as having black, carefully brushed hair, receding and sprinkled with gray.

A professor, Edgely is described as having an old-fashioned crew cut and wearing a bow tie.

When Pitt and his group first stumble upon the outside of the structure, it is described as having a massive iron gate whose bars are welded in the slfape of dolphins.