Clive Cussler
1) Cyclops
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 8
Language
English
Description
A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts toward Florida with a crew of dead men--Soviet cosmonauts. Dirk Pitt discovers a shocking scheme: a covert group of US industrialists has put a colony on the moon, a secret base they will defend at any cost. Threatened in space, the Russians are about to strike a savage blow in Cuba--and only NUMA's Dirk Pitt can stop them. From a Cuban...
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
1983, ©1982
Language
English
Description
"Dirk Pitt, death-defying adventurer and deep-sea expert, is put to the ultimate test as he plunges into the perilous waters of the Pacific Vortex." Pitt's job is to find Starbuck, America's deep-diving nuclear arsenal and salvage it before the sea explodes.
Author
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
In the Sea Hunters, his first nonfiction book, Cussler explorers the special world of undersea adventure that inspired and has its fictional parallel in the Dirk Pitt novels. He describes his lifelong love for the sea and ships, and how his involvement with the search for John Paul Jones's famous Revolutionary War ship, the Bonhome Richard, led to his establishing the NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) Foundation, a nonprofit organization...
4) Fire strike
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Series
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English
Description
"When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to unleash a deadly assault on U.S. forces, sparking a new war in the Middle East and ultimately destroying Israel. Cabrillo's crew have met their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. The Oregon...
Author
Series
Kurt Austin adventures volume 20
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken, the men say, by baffling lights that circled the ship....
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English
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"On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken--the men say--by baffling lights that circled the ship....
7) Sahara
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Dirk Pitt is searching for a treasure on the River Niger. Pitt, along with his buddy Al Giordino have to thwart the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist who is investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans to death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is a vast, fast spreading pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas. Racing to save the world from environmental catastrophe, Pitt...
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 27
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Muše de l'Arm̌e is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt is on a diving expedition...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musée de l'Armée is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, Dirk Pitt and the NUMA agency are on a diving expedition in the English Channel...