TY - BOOK AU - Cussler,Clive AU - Brown,Graham AU - Cussler,Clive AU - Cussler,Clive AU - Cussler,Clive TI - Zero hour: a novel from the NUMA files T2 - A Kurt Austin adventure SN - 0399164790 AV - PS3553.U75 Z48 2013 PY - 2013///] CY - New York PB - G. P. Putnam's Sons KW - Austin, Kurt (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Zero-point field KW - Field theory (Physics) KW - Suspense fiction, American KW - Adventure stories, American KW - Suspense fiction KW - gsafd KW - Adventure fiction KW - lcgft KW - 2013 KW - local N1 - Audience; General N2 - It is called zero point energy, and it really exists - a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, however - until one scientist discovers a way. Or at least he thinks he has. The problem is, his machines also cause great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other is submerged in a vast ocean trench. If Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala and the rest of the NUMA team aren't able to find and destroy them, and soon, the world will be on the threshold of a new era of earth tremors and unchecked volcanism ER -