Dark Watch is a novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 by Clive Cussler

Clive Cussler

Clive Eric Cussler is an American adventure novelist and marine archaeologist. His thriller novels, many featuring the character Dirk Pitt, have reached The New York Times fiction best-seller list more than seventeen times...

 and Jack Du Brul

Jack Du Brul

Jack Du Brul is a New York Times Best-Selling Author from Vermont who writes Techno-thrillers.-Early life:...

. It was published in 2005 and is the third installment in The Oregon Files

The Oregon Files

The Oregon Files are a group of novels written by author Clive Cussler and co-author Craig Dirgo and later co-author Jack Du Brul. The books follow the mysterious "Corporation" and its leader Juan Cabrillo. The "Oregon Files" come from the name of the ship on which the Corporation is based, the...

 series.

It takes place with the Corporation, with its leader Juan Cabrillo

Juan Cabrillo (Fictional)

Juan Cabrillo is the main character in Clive Cussler's Oregon Files, a series of books based on the Oregon, a state-of-the-art vessel disguised as a rusting heap of junk. Cabrillo is the Chairman of the Corporation, and is in charge of the ship and its crew. He is a tall man in his forties,...

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 instances of piracy (that the world currently is concerned with) and how these two seemingly different events are related.