Dirk Pitt adventures
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 2
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English
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A WWI fighter plane attacks a modern airbase ... a saboteur preys on a scientific expedition and Dirk Pitt plays a game of hunter and hunted.
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 4
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English
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On orders from the Pentagon, marine explorer Dirk Pitt must salvage crucial material from the world's most infamous maritime disaster in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
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. Now, racing against brutal storms,...
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. Now, racing against brutal storms,...
5) Vixen 03
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 5
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1978
Language
English
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An African terrorist group acquires two canisters containing a virulent organism and threatens to attack Washington, D.C.
6) Night probe!
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 6
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Bantam Books
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English
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Dirk Pitt must descend to the bottom of the Hudson River to recover a copy of the secret North American Treaty signed in 1914, but Great Britain is racing to find and destroy the same document.
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 7
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English
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Dirk Pitt, a ladies' man and daring adventurer, is up against a sinister Asian shipping family and a Soviet plot to use the President of the United States for its own purposes through mind control.
8) Cyclops
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 8
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English
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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...
9) Treasure
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English
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Dirk discovers the secret trail of the treasures of Alexandria-- and a brutal conspiracy for total domination of the globe.
10) Dragon
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 10
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English
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"Japan, 1945: Two US bombers take off with atomic bombs. Only one gets through. The Pacific, 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the United States is instantly, thunderously vaporized, taking with it a Norwegian vessel. Japanese fanatics have developed a chilling plan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. From the ocean depths to the discovery of cache of lost Nazi loot, Dirk Pitt is untangling a savage conspiracy and igniting a daring counterattack....
11) Sahara
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 11
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English
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Dirk Pitt searches for a 2500-year-old pharaoh, investigates a biological disaster that threatens the world's oxygen supply, rescues a gorgeous international diplomat from imminent assassination, uncovers a nuclear waste spill that turns thousands of tribal Africans into crazed cannibals, solves the disappearance of an aviator over the Sahara in the 1930s, and reveals the great unknown secret behind the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 12
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English
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An action-filled chase through the Amazon jungle for 16th Century Spanish treasure. Joining in the pursuit are Dirk Pitt, the hero, his congresswoman girlfriend, the FBI, the Customs Service, archaeologists, a tribe of local Indians, smugglers and various thieves. There's plenty of treasure for everyone, the gold requiring 200 men just to lift.
13) Shock wave
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 13
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English
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Dirk Pitt of the National Underwater and Marine Agency leads a team to the Antarctic to find out why dolphins and seals are disappearing from around Seymour Island. This brings him in conflict with a mining company which is using deadly sound waves to drill for diamonds. But it also brings romance with the villain's beautiful daughter. By the author of Sahara.
14) Flood tide
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 14
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English
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PI Dirk Witt investigates smuggling of Chinese immigrants into the U.S. He discovers an underwater prison near Seattle full of dead Chinese, and a beautiful immigration officer whom he frees.
15) Atlantis found
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 15
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English
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Marine explorer Dirk Pitt faces off against an elite army from an era gone-by in order to uncover the secrets of an ancient civilization in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
A group of anthropologists uncover strange inscriptions on the wall of a Colorado mine just as an explosion traps them deep within the earth. But their work won’t stay buried long. Dirk Pitt is on hand during the blast and quick to initiate...
A group of anthropologists uncover strange inscriptions on the wall of a Colorado mine just as an explosion traps them deep within the earth. But their work won’t stay buried long. Dirk Pitt is on hand during the blast and quick to initiate...
17) Trojan odyssey
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 17
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
18) Black wind
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 18
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English
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Someone knows where two WWII Japanese subs carrying a biological virus were sunk; it's up to Dirk Pitt and his children to stop them.
19) Treasure of Khan
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 19
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English
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Clive Cussler’s astonishing new Dirk Pitt® adventure.
Black Wind continued Dirk Pitt’s meteoric career with one of Cussler’s most audacious, and well-received, novels yet: “Black Wind more than maintains the supercharged Cusslerian danger” (Kirkus Reviews); “Thriller fans will revel in this action-packed yarn” (Publishers Weekly). But now Cussler takes...
Black Wind continued Dirk Pitt’s meteoric career with one of Cussler’s most audacious, and well-received, novels yet: “Black Wind more than maintains the supercharged Cusslerian danger” (Kirkus Reviews); “Thriller fans will revel in this action-packed yarn” (Publishers Weekly). But now Cussler takes...
20) Arctic drift
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 20
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English
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A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming ... a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia ... a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war ... NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to find...
21) Crescent dawn
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 21
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English
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NUMA director Dirk Pitt searches for the connections among newly discovered Roman artifacts, the rise of a fundamentalist movement, and the existence of a mysterious long-lost "manifest," which, if discovered again, may change the history of the world.
22) Poseidon's arrow
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Ruthless Austrian entrepreneur Edward Bolcke has managed to steal a crucial component of the U.S. Navy's latest submarine technology--and he has found a way to hijack the world's supply of rare earth minerals. The three Pitts, along with longstanding sidekick Al Giordino, use their usual mix of brains and brawn to see that justice is served.
23) Havana storm
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 23
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English
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While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous -- a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure. The problem is,...
24) Odessa sea
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 24
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English
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"Over the years, Dirk Pitt has always had a knack for finding trouble. This time, it has found him. . 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, a smell of sulfur in the air, and, as Pitt and...
25) Celtic empire
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 25
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English
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"Clive Cussler, "The Grand Master of Adventure," sends his intrepid heroes Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino on their wildest, boldest mission into the ancient world, unlocking extraordinary secrets and solving hideous crimes. Another fabulous read from the most beloved series from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. An attack...
26) The devil's sea
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 26
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English
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"Fearless adventurer Dirk Pitt must unravel a historical mystery of epic importance in the latest novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling series created by the "grand master of adventure" Clive Cussler"--
Tibet, 1959. A Buddhist artifact of immense important disappeared during the Communist takeover. When National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea more than sixty years...
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"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, National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt is on a diving expedition...