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Hector Cross novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Internationally bestselling author Smith ("The Quest") delivers one of his best novels yet: an unstoppable contemporary tale in which an oil heiress whose daughter has been kidnapped by African Muslim pirates takes the law into her own hands.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning journalists Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel, the gripping, true-crime story of a notorious maritime hijacking at the heart of a massive conspiracy-and the unsolved murder that threatened to unravel it all. In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates attacked and set her ablaze in a devastating explosion. But when David Mockett, a maritime surveyor working...
Author
Series
Mack Bedford novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After Somali pirates capture two U.S. ships, Mack Bedford and the Navy SEALs' Delta Platoon are tasked with not only rescuing the ships, but also completely obliterating all pirates operating in the Indian Ocean. Reprint. Originally published: c2011.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Under siege: Casey Ryback is a one-man strike force, waging war against hijackers intent on commandeering a battleship's arsenal of nuclear missiles.
Under siege 2: One-man strike force Casey Ryback is back battling terrorists bent on turning a passenger train into a rolling command unit for a weapons satellite.
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventure volume 26
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea over 60 years later, new clues emerge to its hidden existence. But Pitt and his compatriot Al Giordino have larger worries when they are ordered to recover a failed hypersonic missile from Luzon Strait....
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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....
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventure volume 26
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director, Dirk Pitt, discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea over 60 years later, new clues emerge to its hidden existence. But Pitt and his compatriot Al Giordino have larger worries when they are ordered to recover a failed hypersonic missile from Luzon Strait....
12) Captain Phillips
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, which was the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
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Series
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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....
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Series
Vanessa Michael Munroe novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
Passing as a man while working at sea for a security company she discovers is part of a gunrunning operation, Vanessa Michael Munroe escapes a pirate attack and agrees to help find her crewmates only to discover that the hijackers were seeking the ship captain under her care.
17) Under siege
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
When the U.S.S. Missouri welcomes aboard the musicians and caterers set to provide entertainment during the famed battleship's last voyage, the visitors throw a party. Led by a rogue CIA operative and a turncoat officer, they're really commandos out to hijack the ship's nuclear arsenal. They overpower the crew, except for one man, who claims he's just a cook.
18) Condor's fury
Author
Series
NUMA Files volume Bk. 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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