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* ManOnFire: Captain Heinrich Nordegrun and most of his crew die this way, killed by the Death Ray.
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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:After Djemma Garand's plan is foiled, and rockets approach his base, he walks outside to meet them personally. His FamousLastWords last words are: "And so I shall fall, like Hannibal before me".]]
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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Both Djemma Garand and Knife carefully avoid some of the obvious tropes, like falling for NeverFoundTheBody or trusting TheStarscream. This, however, doesn't stop them for avoiding other obvious tropes like putting heroes into a totally escapable DeathTrap.
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* TheStarscream: Andras dreams of being a king. Djemma, being DangerouslyGenreSavvy, aware of this, keeps him on a tight leash. "Djemma smiled. By using Andras’s services, he was making the man incredibly rich, but if there was a way to get even more wealth and power Djemma expected Andras would follow it."
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An adventure novel by Creator/CliveCussler and Graham Brown, part of the Literature/NUMASeries. Adventurer oceanologist Kurt Austin and his sidekick Joe Zavala face a band of RuthlessModernPirates led by a mercenary Andras aka "The Knife" who work for an african dictator Djemma Garand. Wishing to become a new Hannibal, he has built a DeathRay tower, kidnapping some scientists to complete the project. Now he threatens to destroy world nations' capitals unless they pay him a ton of money. Since his weapon burns any ships, planes and missiles on sight, it's up to the BigDamnHeroes to save the day.
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An adventure novel by Creator/CliveCussler and Graham Brown, part of the Literature/NUMASeries.NUMA Files, a spin-off series to the Literature/DirkPittAdventures. Adventurer oceanologist Kurt Austin and his sidekick Joe Zavala face a band of RuthlessModernPirates led by a mercenary Andras aka "The Knife" who work for an african dictator Djemma Garand. Wishing to become a new Hannibal, he has built a DeathRay tower, kidnapping some scientists to complete the project. Now he threatens to destroy world nations' capitals unless they pay him a ton of money. Since his weapon burns any ships, planes and missiles on sight, it's up to the BigDamnHeroes to save the day.
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* AppliedPhlebotinum: Superconductors are described like this. "Their properties make them perfect for any electronic application. From operating a computer to powering a magnetically levitated train to electrical motors for cars that get the equivalent of five hundred miles per gallon". And to DeathRay, of course.
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* AppliedPhlebotinum: Superconductors are described like this. "Their properties make them perfect for any electronic application. From operating a computer to powering a magnetically levitated train to electrical motors for cars that get the equivalent of five hundred miles per gallon". And to building a DeathRay, of course.
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An adventure novel by CliveCussler and Graham Brown, part of the Literature/NUMASeries. Adventurer oceanologist Kurt Austin and his sidekick Joe Zavala face a band of RuthlessModernPirates led by a mercenary Anhras Andras aka "The Knife" who work for an african dictator Djemma Garand. Wishing to become a new Hannibal, he has built a DeathRay tower, kidnapping some scientists to complete the project. Now he threatens to destroy world nations' capitals unless they pay him a ton of money. Since his weapon burns any ships, planes and missiles on sight, it's up to the BigDamnHeroes to save the day.
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* UnknownRival: Andras sees Kurt as a WorthyOpponent and his personal enemy. For Kurt, Andras is just another thug.
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An adventure novel by CliveCussler and Graham Brown, part of the Literature/NUMASeries. Adventurer oceanologist Kurt Austin and his sidekick Joe Zavala face a band of RuthlessModernPirates led by a mercenary Anhras aka "The Knife" who work for an african dictator Djemma Garand. Wishing to become a new Hannibal, he has built a DeathRay tower, kidnapping some scientists to complete the project.
project. Now he threatens to destroy world nations' capitals unless they pay him a ton of money. Since his weapon burns any ships, planes and missiles on sight, it's up to the BigDamnHeroes to save the day.
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* ActionGirl: Katarina Luskaya is a former Olympic athlet, and shows some action early in the novel. This doesn't save her from being captured later.
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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Both Djemma Garand and Knife.
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* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Both Djemma Garand and Knife.Knife carefully avoid some of the obvious tropes, like falling for NeverFoundTheBody or trusting TheStarscream. This, however, doesn't stop them for avoiding other obvious tropes like putting heroes into a totally escapable DeathTrap.
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* EvilPlan: GetRichQuickScheme. Djemma nationalizes all the foreign assets in Sierra Leone. He demands a lot of "grants" from the foreign countries, threatning to use his Death Ray. He also wans a {{Revenge}} to First World countries for his country's colonial past.
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* EvilPlan: GetRichQuickScheme. Djemma nationalizes all the foreign assets in Sierra Leone. He demands a lot of "grants" from the foreign countries, threatning to use his Death Ray. He also wans a {{Revenge}} to First World countries for his country's colonial past. PatrioticFervor is a motive, too.
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* ManInTheIronMask: Djemma Garand's brother.
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* ManInTheIronMask: Djemma Garand's brother.
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* RuthlessModernPirates: Lead by Andras.
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* ActionGirl: Katarina Luskaya.Luskaya is a former Olympic athlet, and shows some action early in the novel. This doesn't save her from being captured later.
* DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp: during the TheBigRace Kurt and Joe see one of the competing submarines suffer an accident and stop to help them, losing the race.
* EvilPlan: GetRichQuickScheme. Djemma nationalizes all the foreign assets in Sierra Leone. He demands a lot of "grants" from the foreign countries, threatning to use his Death Ray. He also wans a {{Revenge}} to First World countries for his country's colonial past.
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* RedHerring:
** The book starts in 1951, with a DefectorFromCommieLand on his way to [=USA=] with some mysterious cargo that ends up on the bottom of the sea. The crashed plane and this cargo do appear later in the book, but remain only marginally related to the plot.
** Devil's Gate anomaly [[spoiler:turns out to be a fake created by the BigBad. His true target is the scientists who gather to research it]]. However, in-universe hoax is paired with the prologue that aims to fool the reader: crush of Hudson Wallace's plane appears like it was caused by a strong magnetic anomaly.
** The book starts in 1951, with a DefectorFromCommieLand on his way to [=USA=] with some mysterious cargo that ends up on the bottom of the sea. The crashed plane and this cargo do appear later in the book, but remain only marginally related to the plot.
** Devil's Gate anomaly [[spoiler:turns out to be a fake created by the BigBad. His true target is the scientists who gather to research it]]. However, in-universe hoax is paired with the prologue that aims to fool the reader: crush of Hudson Wallace's plane appears like it was caused by a strong magnetic anomaly.
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**RedHerring: The book starts in 1951, with a DefectorFromCommieLand on his way to [=USA=] with some mysterious cargo that ends up on the bottom of the sea. The crashed plane and this cargo do appear later in the book, but remain only marginally related to the plot.
** * RedHerringTwist: Devil's Gate anomaly [[spoiler:turns out to be a fake created by the BigBad. His true target is the scientists who gather to research it]]. However, in-universe In-universe hoax is paired with the prologue that aims to fool fools the reader: reader too: crush of Hudson Wallace's plane appears is described like it was caused by a strong magnetic anomaly.anomaly, but is later explained as a completely unrelated matter.
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An adventure novel by CliveCussler and Graham Brown, part of the Literature/NUMASeries. Adventurer oceanologist Kurt Austin and his sidekick Joe Zavala face a band of RuthlessModernPirates led by a mercenary Anhras aka "The Knife" who work for an african dictator Djemma Garand. Wishing to become a new Hannibal, he has built a DeathRay tower, kidnapping some scientists to complete the project.
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!!''Devil's Gate'' provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Katarina Luskaya.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Superconductors are described like this. "Their properties make them perfect for any electronic application. From operating a computer to powering a magnetically levitated train to electrical motors for cars that get the equivalent of five hundred miles per gallon". And to DeathRay, of course.
* BananaRepublic: Sierra Leone.
* BigBad: Sierra Leone dictator Djemma Garand.
* BrickJoke: Mid-story, during a chase, Kurt and Joe release a leopard from an exotic pet shop. In the end they get a remark from Dirk Pitt: "I don’t even want to know why we’re paying for the capture of a juvenile spotted leopard".
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Curiously, this American stereotype is attributed to a Russian (Katarina). "“He’s in no danger,” Kurt said confidently. “Neither are we, unless the French team wants to fight about the core sample they’ve taken.” “Not the French way,” she said."
* ContinuityNod: Some of the previous books' characters show up, some are just mentioned once or twice, like St. Julien Perlmutter.
* DamselInDistress: Kristi Nordegrun in the beginning, later Katarina Luskaya. Both saved by Kurt.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Both Djemma Garand and Knife.
* DeathRay: Djemma's DoomsdayDevice: a particle accelerator based on stolen Large Hadron Collider technology. Underwater!
* DeathTrap: DrowningPit kind. Knife handcuffs Kurt and Joe to a submarine and drowns it... Leaving them a key.
* DefectorFromCommieLand: Tarasov.
* DerelictGraveyard: The eponymous Devil's Gate, an underwater magnetic anomaly.
* DoubleEntendre: When Gamay said "Feels weird to be lying down, I’m used to doing it standing up.", she was talking about operating her research drone.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:After Djemma Garand's plan is foiled, and rockets approach his base, he walks outside to meet them personally. His FamousLastWords are: "And so I shall fall, like Hannibal before me".]]
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Audi and Focus fall from a cliff and immediately explode.
* FedToTheBeast: Kurt and Joe almost feed an uncooperative informer to a constrictor.
* FourStarBadass: Dirk Pitt has become this, being promoted to [=NUMA=] director of operations.
* FunWithAcronyms: "the figure was known by the incredibly awkward name Robotic Advanced Person-shaped Underwater Zero-connection Explorer. Because the acronym shortened to [=RAPUNZE=], the test team had taken to calling the little figure Rapunzel."
* GratuitousRussian: Katarina is not a Russian name.
* HesDeadJim: Kristi Nordegrun, finding dead crew member on the ship after Andras's attack.
* HotScientist: Katarina Luskaya and Gamay Trout.
* IOweYouMyLife: Haruto Takagawa to Dirk. At first he's reluctant to share information about the cargo on the ship that was attacked by Andras's pirates, but speaks after Dirk reminds him of this.
* KillItWithIce: [[spoiler:Andras]] dies bathed in liquid nitrogen, living long enough to see himself [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatter]].
* ManInTheIronMask: Djemma Garand's brother.
* ManOnFire: Captain Heinrich Nordegrun and most of his crew die like that, killed by the Death Ray.
* MeaningfulEcho: Nonverbal. First time Andras and Kurt meet, Andras gets what he wants and leaves behind a knife as a symbol of his triumph. Later Kurt escapes from Andras on an ultralight plane, cutting other planes' wings with the same knife and leaving it behind as a "take that". Next time they meet, Andras sends Kurt into a DeathTrap with the same knive, this time with a key to Kurt's handcuffs hanging from it. During their last fight Kurt [[spoiler:throws the knife to Andras to distract him and shoot a liquid nitrogen pipe next to him]].
* MonumentalDamage: Djemma plans to destroy Capitol with his DeathRay.
* MilitariesAreUseless: Unless they're from [=NUMA=].
* NeverFoundTheBody: Kurt tries to invoke this running from Andras, dropping his empty car from a cliff. Andras, being DangerouslyGenreSavvy, checks.
* PsychoForHire: Andras "The Knife".
* PoirotSpeak: Obligatory Russian "Da". Joe frequently drops lines in Spanish.
* RedHerring:
** The book starts in 1951, with a DefectorFromCommieLand on his way to [=USA=] with some mysterious cargo that ends up on the bottom of the sea. The crashed plane and this cargo do appear later in the book, but remain only marginally related to the plot.
** Devil's Gate anomaly [[spoiler:turns out to be a fake created by the BigBad. His true target is the scientists who gather to research it]]. However, in-universe hoax is paired with the prologue that aims to fool the reader: crush of Hudson Wallace's plane appears like it was caused by a strong magnetic anomaly.
* RunningGag: During the underwater adventures, Joe several times whines about how he wants to go somewhere dry and hot. In the epilogue he suggests a vacation in Gobi desert.
* RuthlessModernPirates: Lead by Andras.
* SensualSlavs: Katarina Luskaya.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Cochrane tries to do that in the end[[spoiler:, and immediately [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlives his usefulness]].]]
* TeaserOnlyCharacter:
** Subverted with Hudson Wallace: he appears in the prologue in 1951, and crashes his plane. Later we learn that he survived, and see him again as an old man in the epilogue.
** Played straight with Captain Heinrich Nordegrun who is burned alive by the DeathRay in chapter 2.
* TheBigRace: Underwater, for the title of the world’s fastest two-man submarine.
* TheDragon: Andras.
* TheGeneralissimo: Djemma Garand, complete with CoolShades and ChestOfMedals.
* TheStarscream: Andras dreams of being a king. Djemma, being DangerouslyGenreSavvy, keeps him on a tight leash. "Djemma smiled. By using Andras’s services, he was making the man incredibly rich, but if there was a way to get even more wealth and power Djemma expected Andras would follow it."
* TheWarRoom: Pentagon Situation Room.
* {{Turncoat}}: Alexander Cochrane, selling himself and technology stolen from [=LHC=], to Djemma.
* UnderwaterBase: Djemma's.
* WorthyOpponent: Andras sees Kurt as one. Kurt, on the other hand, just despises him.
An adventure novel by CliveCussler and Graham Brown, part of the Literature/NUMASeries. Adventurer oceanologist Kurt Austin and his sidekick Joe Zavala face a band of RuthlessModernPirates led by a mercenary Anhras aka "The Knife" who work for an african dictator Djemma Garand. Wishing to become a new Hannibal, he has built a DeathRay tower, kidnapping some scientists to complete the project.
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!!''Devil's Gate'' provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Katarina Luskaya.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Superconductors are described like this. "Their properties make them perfect for any electronic application. From operating a computer to powering a magnetically levitated train to electrical motors for cars that get the equivalent of five hundred miles per gallon". And to DeathRay, of course.
* BananaRepublic: Sierra Leone.
* BigBad: Sierra Leone dictator Djemma Garand.
* BrickJoke: Mid-story, during a chase, Kurt and Joe release a leopard from an exotic pet shop. In the end they get a remark from Dirk Pitt: "I don’t even want to know why we’re paying for the capture of a juvenile spotted leopard".
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Curiously, this American stereotype is attributed to a Russian (Katarina). "“He’s in no danger,” Kurt said confidently. “Neither are we, unless the French team wants to fight about the core sample they’ve taken.” “Not the French way,” she said."
* ContinuityNod: Some of the previous books' characters show up, some are just mentioned once or twice, like St. Julien Perlmutter.
* DamselInDistress: Kristi Nordegrun in the beginning, later Katarina Luskaya. Both saved by Kurt.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Both Djemma Garand and Knife.
* DeathRay: Djemma's DoomsdayDevice: a particle accelerator based on stolen Large Hadron Collider technology. Underwater!
* DeathTrap: DrowningPit kind. Knife handcuffs Kurt and Joe to a submarine and drowns it... Leaving them a key.
* DefectorFromCommieLand: Tarasov.
* DerelictGraveyard: The eponymous Devil's Gate, an underwater magnetic anomaly.
* DoubleEntendre: When Gamay said "Feels weird to be lying down, I’m used to doing it standing up.", she was talking about operating her research drone.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:After Djemma Garand's plan is foiled, and rockets approach his base, he walks outside to meet them personally. His FamousLastWords are: "And so I shall fall, like Hannibal before me".]]
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Audi and Focus fall from a cliff and immediately explode.
* FedToTheBeast: Kurt and Joe almost feed an uncooperative informer to a constrictor.
* FourStarBadass: Dirk Pitt has become this, being promoted to [=NUMA=] director of operations.
* FunWithAcronyms: "the figure was known by the incredibly awkward name Robotic Advanced Person-shaped Underwater Zero-connection Explorer. Because the acronym shortened to [=RAPUNZE=], the test team had taken to calling the little figure Rapunzel."
* GratuitousRussian: Katarina is not a Russian name.
* HesDeadJim: Kristi Nordegrun, finding dead crew member on the ship after Andras's attack.
* HotScientist: Katarina Luskaya and Gamay Trout.
* IOweYouMyLife: Haruto Takagawa to Dirk. At first he's reluctant to share information about the cargo on the ship that was attacked by Andras's pirates, but speaks after Dirk reminds him of this.
* KillItWithIce: [[spoiler:Andras]] dies bathed in liquid nitrogen, living long enough to see himself [[LiterallyShatteredLives shatter]].
* ManInTheIronMask: Djemma Garand's brother.
* ManOnFire: Captain Heinrich Nordegrun and most of his crew die like that, killed by the Death Ray.
* MeaningfulEcho: Nonverbal. First time Andras and Kurt meet, Andras gets what he wants and leaves behind a knife as a symbol of his triumph. Later Kurt escapes from Andras on an ultralight plane, cutting other planes' wings with the same knife and leaving it behind as a "take that". Next time they meet, Andras sends Kurt into a DeathTrap with the same knive, this time with a key to Kurt's handcuffs hanging from it. During their last fight Kurt [[spoiler:throws the knife to Andras to distract him and shoot a liquid nitrogen pipe next to him]].
* MonumentalDamage: Djemma plans to destroy Capitol with his DeathRay.
* MilitariesAreUseless: Unless they're from [=NUMA=].
* NeverFoundTheBody: Kurt tries to invoke this running from Andras, dropping his empty car from a cliff. Andras, being DangerouslyGenreSavvy, checks.
* PsychoForHire: Andras "The Knife".
* PoirotSpeak: Obligatory Russian "Da". Joe frequently drops lines in Spanish.
* RedHerring:
** The book starts in 1951, with a DefectorFromCommieLand on his way to [=USA=] with some mysterious cargo that ends up on the bottom of the sea. The crashed plane and this cargo do appear later in the book, but remain only marginally related to the plot.
** Devil's Gate anomaly [[spoiler:turns out to be a fake created by the BigBad. His true target is the scientists who gather to research it]]. However, in-universe hoax is paired with the prologue that aims to fool the reader: crush of Hudson Wallace's plane appears like it was caused by a strong magnetic anomaly.
* RunningGag: During the underwater adventures, Joe several times whines about how he wants to go somewhere dry and hot. In the epilogue he suggests a vacation in Gobi desert.
* RuthlessModernPirates: Lead by Andras.
* SensualSlavs: Katarina Luskaya.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Cochrane tries to do that in the end[[spoiler:, and immediately [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlives his usefulness]].]]
* TeaserOnlyCharacter:
** Subverted with Hudson Wallace: he appears in the prologue in 1951, and crashes his plane. Later we learn that he survived, and see him again as an old man in the epilogue.
** Played straight with Captain Heinrich Nordegrun who is burned alive by the DeathRay in chapter 2.
* TheBigRace: Underwater, for the title of the world’s fastest two-man submarine.
* TheDragon: Andras.
* TheGeneralissimo: Djemma Garand, complete with CoolShades and ChestOfMedals.
* TheStarscream: Andras dreams of being a king. Djemma, being DangerouslyGenreSavvy, keeps him on a tight leash. "Djemma smiled. By using Andras’s services, he was making the man incredibly rich, but if there was a way to get even more wealth and power Djemma expected Andras would follow it."
* TheWarRoom: Pentagon Situation Room.
* {{Turncoat}}: Alexander Cochrane, selling himself and technology stolen from [=LHC=], to Djemma.
* UnderwaterBase: Djemma's.
* WorthyOpponent: Andras sees Kurt as one. Kurt, on the other hand, just despises him.
