Dirk Pitt Novels (Hardcover)
5 total works
There is a black tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua. Whilst trying to determine its origin, startling things begin to occur and the inhabitants of a floating resort find themselves directly in the path of a violent storm. Dirk and the NUMA crew rush to their rescue, but they discover that there is an all-too-human evil at work and the black tide is only a by-product of its plan. Soon its work will be complete - and the world will be a very different place...
Arctic Drift sees Clive Cussler's greatest hero, Dirk Pitt, fighting his enemies in the cruel Arctic.
A foundered Victorian ship looking for the fabled Northwest Passage holds a secret in its icy grave . . .
When Dirk Pitt of NUMA is almost blown to pieces in a lab explosion, he suspects sabotage. The lab in question belongs to a scientist hoping to use a rare mineral to combat greenhouse gases - but who would want to destroy our one chance to save the planet?
But there are those who will do anything to control such a valuable prize. Pitt's investigations take him to the Arctic in search of a clue to the origins of this precious mineral. There he and NUMA colleague Al Giordino must battle for survival against the hostile elements and an evil megalomaniac who is about to plunge the North American continent into war . . .
Arctic Drift is a white-knuckle ride of a novel that once picked up you won't want to put down. It is the twentieth of Clive Cussler's bestselling Dirk Pitt novels - the series that also includes Raise the Titanic!and his first novel, Mayday - and is co-authored with his son Dirk Cussler.
Praise for Clive Cussler:
'Clive Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail
Albatros, a vintage World War I fighter plane,
has swooped out of the blazing blue sky to attack a
modern U.S. Air Force base, nearly destroying its fleet
of F-105 Starfire jets. Thirty miles offshore, piloting a
Catalina en route to the American scientific research
vessel First Attempt, Dirk Pitt hears and responds to
the Brady Field emergency call. He blows the Albatros
back into the oblivion from which it came, ripping open
a mammoth half-century-old conspiracy in the process.
Pitt has come to the Aegean to hunt down the mysterious
saboteur preying on "First Attempt" -- the ship's
mission is to search for a missing evolutionary link, a
rare and possibly extinct fish -- but connecting the
sabotage on board to the attack on Brady Field, Dirk Pitt
knows he's fishing for a shark: a human shark that
smells blood.
The adventure begins with Teri. She's a glamorous
modern Greek goddess in a red bikini, devastatingly
beautiful, devastatingly dangerous, and the key to a vast
drug-smuggling ring about to bring off a lethal billion-
dollar deal. As much as she's willing to reveal to Pitt,
there's one secret she holds back: the truth about a
missing Nazi war criminal now ruling over a corrupt
empire. For decades he has managed to elude international
authorities, remain one step ahead of the world's
top investigators, and destroy all his enemies, except
one: Dirk Pitt.
From a thrilling aerial dogfight to heart-stopping
hand-to-hand combat, Dirk Pitt follows a trail of blood,
treachery, and terror into the depths ofa cavernous
undersea labyrinth. There, in the legendary Pit of
Hades, the action explodes in a climax of unparalleled
excitement, as Pitt confronts the brilliance and brutali-
ty of a sinister nemesis with a genius for Death.
Dirk Pitt, the director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is on the Black Sea, helping to locate a lost Ottoman shipwreck, when he responds to an urgent Mayday—“Under attack!”—from a nearby freighter. But when he and his colleague Al Giordino arrive, there is nobody there. Just dead bodies and a smell of sulfur in the air. As Pitt and Giordino explore, a blast from the stern scuttles the ship swiftly, almost taking them with it.
The more the two of them search for the secret of the death ship, the deeper they descend into an extraordinary series of discoveries. A desperate attempt in 1917 to preserve the wealth and power of the Romanov Empire. A Cold War bomber lost with a deadly cargo. A brilliant developer of advanced drone technology on an unknown mission. Modern-day nuclear smugglers, determined Ukrainian rebels, a beautiful anti-terrorism agent from Europol—all will combine to present Pitt with the most dangerous challenge of his career.
And not only Pitt. His two children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are exploring a mysterious shipwreck of their own, when they are catapulted into his orbit. The three of them are used to perilous situations—but this time, they may have found their match.
In Poseidon's Arrow, Clive Cussler's great hero, Dirk Pitt, returns to fight a terrifying enemy.
1942, the Cape of Good Hope. Returning from a secret mission a submarine is attacked and fatally damaged. Its precious cargo is believed to be lost along with the vessel ...
Three quarters of a century later, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt saves a crowded cruise ship from being rammed by a runaway freighter. On board the rogue ship he finds the strangely burned remains of a single crewman.
A continent away, the President is shown the prototype of the Poseidon's Arrow attack submarine, the top secret result of a programme so advanced it will secure US dominance at sea for decades to come. But the scientist responsible for its design has disappeared, along with the final plans to the technology.
Pitt is assigned to investigate. But as the hunt leads him around the world, both his partner and Poseidon's Arrow revolutionary propulsion system also go missing. And soon the chilling connections between apparently disparate events begin to reveal themselves.
Only Pitt can halt a shadowy conspiracy hellbent on using America's latest military technology to realize their terrifying ambitions.
With all the searing pace, wild imagination and heart-in-the-mouth thrills that are the Cussler hallmark, Poseidon's Arrow affirms once more that we are in the hands of the Grandmaster of Adventure. Poseidon's Arrow follows Arctic Drift and Crescent Dawn as the twenty-second Dirk Pitt Adventure.
Praise for Clive Cussler:
'Clive Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail