Dirk Pitt Adventure
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Book 1
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.
Book 2
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail
The superb third Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler.
The towering iceberg drifting in the North Atlantic is a floating tomb. Embedded in the great gleaming mass is a ship - sealed in so solidly that not even its mast protrudes.
Here is a sea mystery to rank alongside the Bermuda Triangle and the Marie Celeste. But for Major Dirk Pitt, top troubleshooter for the National Underwater and Marine Agency, it is also the first link in a fantastic chain of events that will lead him too close - and too often - to violent death. And to the discovery of the most sinister and bizarre conspiracy of the century . . . ICEBERG.
'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy
'The Adventure King' Daily Express
Book 3
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail
DEEP UNDER THE WAVES, A MISSION TO A LEGENDARY MARITIME DISASTER . . .
The President's secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on an extremely rare radioactive element - and Dirk Pitt has followed a twisted trail to a secret cache of the substance.
Two and a half miles beneath the icy North Atlantic, the mighty Titanic holds the key to the safety of the free world. Now, racing against brutal storms, Soviet spies and a ticking clock, Pitt begins his most thrilling mission: to raise from its watery grave the shipwreck of the century.
It will be one of the most stupendous tests of courage and ingenuity ever.
'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy
'The Adventure King' Daily Express
Book 4
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail
The brilliant fifth Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler.
Over thirty years ago, on an ultra-secret flight to the South Pacific, the transport plane Vixen 03 vanished. It was believed to be lost at sea. And carrying canisters of the most lethal substance known to man.
Now Vixen 03 has returned to haunt the world. Dirk Pitt, the ace maritime troubleshooter who raised the Titanic, is the only man who can overcome the nightmarish problems involved in retrieving her cargo. And the price of failure is terrifying.
'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy
'The Adventure King' Daily Express
Book 5
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail
The page-turning Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler.
May 1914. Two diplomats hurry home by sea and rail, each carrying a document of world-changing importance. Then the liner Empress of India is sunk in a collision, and the Manhattan-Line express plunges from a bridge - both dragging their VIP passengers to watery oblivion. Tragic coincidence or conspiracy?
In the energy-starved, fear-torn 1980s, Dirk Pitt discovers that those long-lost papers could destroy whole nations, throwing him into his biggest challenge yet. Racing against hired killers, he launches his revolutionary deep-sea search craft and faces the horrors of the sea bed to hunt for the documents. 'Night Probe' has begun . . .
'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy
'The Adventure King' Daily Express
Book 6
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail
The thrilling first Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler.
Fully armed and with all hands on board, the nuclear submarine Starbuck sailed into the calm Pacific Ocean for sea trials - and vanished. No wreckage, no signals, no survivors: nothing . . . until ace maritime troubleshooter Dirk Pitt finds a single, chilling clue in the shark-torn surf off Hawaii - the log of the Starbuck.
'Do not search for us, it can only end in vain . . . ' A crazed journal of madness and death is all that remains. And the Captain's final, scrawled, fear-crazed note locates the Starbuck's grave hundreds of miles from her last known position! The search for the Starbuck plunges Dirk Pitt into his most shattering assignment to date - a whirlpool of deep-sea mystery and terror - the Pacific Vortex!
'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy
'The Adventure King' Daily Express
Book 7
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail
The gripping Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler.
For the President of the United States, the crisis point is approaching fast. With his new Soviet initiative entering its most crucial phase, the President suddenly finds himself faced with a pollution disaster of potentially cataclysmic proportions. And then - incredibly - he vanishes into thin air, leaving his country poised on the brink of chaos.
It's left to troubleshooter extraordinaire Dirk Pitt to hotwire the connections between these two shattering events. From the icy Alaskan waters to a Korean shipbreaker's yard; from a Caribbean shipwreck to a blazing inferno in the Mississippi Delta, he tracks down a conspiracy so fiendish and sophisticated that even the superpowers are helpless in its grip . . .
'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy
'The Adventure King' Daily Express
Book 8
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail
The suspenseful eighth Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler.
Dirk Pitt doesn't go looking for adventure: it finds him easily enough. His chance witnessing of an airship disaster - which nearly kills him - and subsequent discovery of the gruesome fate of the crew sets in motion the most nail-biting chain of events of his career. The hijacking on a golf course of one of the world's most powerful leaders; an exotic but outrageous undercover operation in the Caribbean; the sinister intrigue of a secret power base on the moon . . . Pitt's considerable resources and guile are about to be tested to the limit.
But when he finds a trail leading towards a fabulous treasure hidden fathoms deep in the ocean, Pitt realises he is on to something very special indeed. For somewhere in the raging waters lies the legendary lost lady of El Dorado, the golden prize that had already lured thousands to their graves . . .
'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy
'The Adventure King' Daily Express
Book 9
Book 12
The twelfth hair-raising Dirk Pitt thriller, which sees the adventurer hunt for a fabulous hoard of Inca gold, before the richest prize known to man is lost forever.
ACTION-PACKED ADVENTURE
A call for help from a stricken archaeological expedition brings Dirk Pitt to a sacred well, high in the Andes. There he confronts a band of ruthless art thieves, who plunder ancient sites for their precious artefacts.
But soon Dirk Pitt faces even graver danger, as he searches for a lost Spanish galleon and hunts for a fabulous hoard of Inca gold. And in a desperate race against time, Pitt must track down a sacred site – before the richest prize known to man is lost to the world forever…
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Book 17
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...
Book 18
Clive Cussler's Black Wind is the eighteenth Dirk Pitt adventure, and a masterclass in adventure writing.
In the dark, final days of World War Two, two submarines set out from Japan bearing a deadly virus destined for US cities. But neither boat was heard of again...
Present day: NUMA Special Projects Director Dirk Pitt rescues a team of scientists from a deadly cloud of poison gas in the North West Pacific. Discovering that this was no natural phenomenon, Pitt is quickly on the hunt for a pair of lost WWII submarines and their deadly cargo. But he soon learns that he's not the only one searching for the virus: a sinister group of very able terrorists are aiming to relaunch the attack on the US some sixty years later. With time running out, only Dirk Pitt and the NUMA team stand between evil forces and a terrifying assault on America's west coast ...
With pulse-pounding suspense and jaw-dropping action on almost every page, Black Wind is a Clive Cussler story that no adventure junkie dare miss. Black Wind is the eighteenth of Clive Cussler's bestselling Dirk Pitt novels - the series that also includes Sahara and, his first novel, Mayday - co-authored with his son Dirk Cussler, in which our hero races against a terrorist organisation to prevent a biological attack on the US.
Praise for Clive Cussler:
'No holds barred adventure ... a souped-up treat' Daily Mirror
'Frightening and full of suspense ... unquestionably entertaining' Daily Express
Book 19
From the frigid lakes of Siberia to the hot wastes of the Gobi desert, Dirk Pitt is on the trail of fabled treasure ...
Rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russia's Lake Baikal is all in a day's work for adventurers Dirk Pitt and partner Al Giordino. Yet when their ship is sabotaged and the survey team vanishes, Pitt is forced to get to the bottom of a mystery with far-reaching consequences.
Soon he's on his way to Mongolia. There, a powerful and ruthless business tycoon holding an astonishing secret about Genghis Khan is hoping to emulate the legend's greatest conquests - but on a global scale!
With the legacy of Khan and the lost treasures of Xanadu as the prize and the future security of the world at stake, Dirk Pitt for one isn't going to stand idly by ...
Book 20
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
Book 21
Dirk Pitt returns in the extraordinary new novel from the number one bestselling author.
In A.D. 327, a Roman galley with an extraordinary cargo barely escapes a pirate attack. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions.
What ties them all together?
NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his team are about to find out, as Roman artifacts discovered in Turkey and Israel unnervingly connect to the rise of a fundamentalist movement determined to restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire. From Washington to London to the treacherous shores of the Near East, dangerous men and desperate acts fill their path, and at the end of it, the most dangerous thing of all: the rumoured existence of a mysterious "manifest," lost long ago, which if discovered again . . . just might change the history of the world as we know it.
Book 22
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
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