Dragon
Hardcover first Edition
Author	Clive Cussler
Cover artist	Paul Bacon
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Dirk Pitt Novels
Genre	Adventure, Techno-thriller novel
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Publication date	1990 (Hardcover) 1991 (Paperback)
Media type	Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages	542 pp (Hardcover edition)
ISBN	0-671-62619-1 (Hardcover) ISBN 0-671-74276-0 (Paperback)
OCLC	21297613
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 20
LC Class	PS3553.U75 D7 1990
Preceded by	Treasure
Followed by	Sahara

Dragon is an adventure novel by Clive Cussler.^[1] This is the 10th book featuring the author's primary protagonist, Dirk Pitt. In 1945, a B-29 bomber carrying a third atomic bomb to Japan is shot down over the sea off the coast of Japan. In 1993, terrorists want to restore Japan's former glory through nuclear blackmail.

Characters in Dragon

Dirk Pitt – Special Projects Director for the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA)
Admiral James Sandecker – Chief Director of NUMA
Al Giordino – Assistant Special Projects Director for NUMA.
Hideki Suma - The Japanese leader to the "Kaiten Project", he plans to blackmail the world powers into treating Japan as the leading world power by secretly planting nuclear bomb cars inside the major cities of the world.
Major Charles Dennings - Dennings Demons, Pilot
Captain Irv Stanton - Dennings Demons, Bombardier
Captain Mort Stromp - Dennings Demons, Co-Pilot
Lieutenant Joseph Arnold - Dennings Demons, Navigator
Navy Commander Hank Byrnes - Dennings Demons, Weapons Engineer
General Harold Morrison - Special deputy to General Leslie Groves
General Leslie Groves - Head of the Manhattan Project
Sergeant Robert Mosley - Dennings Demons, Flight Engineer
Lieutenant Junior Grade Sato Okinaga - Japanese Patrol Pilot
Captain Arne Korvold - Captain, Narvik
Oscar Steen - Chief Officer, Narvik
Olaf Andersson - Asst. Chief Engineer, Narvik, Divine Star Boarding Party
Clive Cussler – This was the first novel in which the author made a cameo appearance.

Release history

1990, United States, Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-671-62619-1, 1990, Hardcover.
1991, United States, Pocket Books (Revised Edition), ISBN 0-671-74276-0, July 1, 1991, Paperback.
1993, United States, LGF, ISBN 2-253-06382-7, January 1, 1993, Paperback.

References

^ "DRAGON | Kirkus Reviews". 4 June 1990.

Dirk Pitt

Novels

Adaptations

Raise the Titanic
Sahara

v t e Works by Clive Cussler
Dirk Pitt Adventures	The Mediterranean Caper (1973) Iceberg (1975) Raise the Titanic! (1976) Vixen 03 (1978) Night Probe! (1981) Pacific Vortex! (1983) Deep Six (1984) Cyclops (1986) Treasure (1988) Dragon (1990) Sahara (1992) Inca Gold (1994) Shock Wave (1996) Flood Tide (1997) Atlantis Found (1999) Valhalla Rising (2001) Trojan Odyssey (2003) Black Wind (2004) Treasure of Khan (2006) Arctic Drift (2008) Crescent Dawn (2010) Poseidon's Arrow (2012) Havana Storm (2014) Odessa Sea (2016) Celtic Empire (2018)
The NUMA Files	Serpent (1999) Fire Ice (2002) White Death (2003) Lost City (2004) Polar Shift (2005) The Navigator (2007) Medusa (2009) Devil's Gate (2011) The Storm (2012) Zero Hour (2013) Ghost Ship (2014) The Pharaoh's Secret (2015) Nighthawk (2017) The Rising Sea (2018)
Oregon Files	Golden Buddha (2003) Sacred Stone (2004) Dark Watch (2005) Skeleton Coast (2006) Plague Ship (2008) Corsair (2009) The Silent Sea (2010) The Jungle (2011) Mirage (2013) Piranha (2015) The Emperor's Revenge (2016) Typhoon Fury (2017) Shadow Tyrants (2018)
Isaac Bell Adventures	The Chase (2007) The Wrecker (2009) The Spy (2010) The Race (2011) The Thief (2012) The Striker (2013) The Bootlegger (2014) The Assassin (2015) The Gangster (2016) The Cutthroat (2017) The Titanic Secret (2019) The Saboteurs (2020)
Fargo Adventures	Spartan Gold (2009) Lost Empire (2010) The Kingdom (2011) The Tombs (2012) The Mayan Secrets (2013) The Eye of Heaven (2014) The Solomon Curse (2015) Pirate (2016) The Romanov Ransom (2017) The Gray Ghost (2018)
Non-fiction	The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks (1996) The Sea Hunters II: Diving the World's Seas for Famous Shipwrecks (2002)