Dark Watch: A Novel Of The Oregon Files

Blurb

Dark Watch is a novel by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul. It was published in 2005 and is the third installment in The Oregon Files series.
It takes place with the Corporation, with its leader Juan Cabrillo and his band of mercenaries aboard their high tech cargo ship the Oregon. The story evolves that a group of Russian scientists are sent in search of ore and they find it. However greed overcomes them, and one of them kills the others to disguise the find. The story also follows something similar to modern-day piracy, slavery and human smuggling and how these seemingly different events are related to the Russians and Chinese with the ore mining.