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The Wrecker (Isaac Bell Adventures #2)
By Clive Cussler, Justin Scott. 2009
In The Chase, Clive Cussler introduced an electrifying new hero, the tall, lean, no-nonsense detective Isaac Bell, who, driven by…
his sense of justice, travels early-twentieth-century America pursuing thieves and killers...?nd sometimes criminals much worse. It is 1907, a year of financial panic and labor unrest. Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line, and desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn sends in his best man, and Bell quickly discovers that a mysterious saboteur haunts the hobo jungles of the West, a man known as the Wrecker, who recruits accomplices from the down-and-out to attack the railroad, and then kills them afterward. Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create maximum havoc, and Bell senses that he is far from done. If Bell doesn't stop him in time, more than a railroad could be at riskit could be the future of the entire country. From the Compact Disc edition.The Navigator (NUMA Files #7)
By Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos. 2007
The most remarkable novel yet in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known…
as the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. Their first victim is a crooked antiquities dealer, murdered in cold blood. Their second very nearly is a UN investigator who, were it not for the timely assistance of Austin and Zavala, would now be at the bottom of a watery grave. What's so special about this statue? Austin wonders. The search for answers will take the NUMA team on an astonishing odyssey through time and space, one that encompasses no less than the lost treasures of King Solomon, a mysterious packet of documents personally encoded by Thomas Jefferson, and a top-secret scientific project that could change the world forever. And that's before the surprises really begin...? Rich with all the hair-raising action and endless invention that have become Cussler's hallmarks, THE NAVIGATOR is the best yet from "Clive the Incredible" (Kirkus Reviews).The eye of heaven (A Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure #6)
By Clive Cussler, Russell Blake. 2014
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when, to their astonishment, they discover…
a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved--and filled with pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico. Bestseller. 2014The bootlegger: an Isaac Bell adventure (An Isaac Bell Adventure #7)
By Clive Cussler, Justin Scott. 2014
1921. The U.S. Treasury hires the Van Dorn Detective Agency to help combat illegal liquor trafficking. When Joseph Van Dorn…
is shot while chasing a rum runner, Detective Isaac Bell vows to find the shooters--not knowing that they may be the Russian Communists' foreign attack force. Some violence. Bestseller. 2014The Mayan secrets: a Fargo adventure (A Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure #5)
By Clive Cussler, Thomas Perry. 2013
Mexico. Married treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo discover a skeleton with a sealed pot that holds an ancient Mayan…
book. The couple must fight off others who covet the powerful secrets that the text contains. 2013Zero hour: a novel from the NUMA files (The NUMA Files #9)
By Clive Cussler, Graham Brown. 2013
While attending a conference in Sydney, Kurt Austin witnesses a helicopter force a speedboat to crash and then circle back…
to shoot the survivors. One of the dying men presses papers into Austin's hand and gasps "Tartarus"--the name of a mythical underworld prison. Some violence and some strong language. 2013The striker: an Isaac Bell adventure (An Isaac Bell Adventure #6)
By Clive Cussler, Justin Scott. 2013
1902. Four years before the events in The Chase (DB 65426), private detective Isaac Bell has his first solo job…
working undercover in a West Virginia coal mine. Though hired to determine if union activists are sabotaging the company, Bell suspects something else is happening. Some violence. 2013The tombs (A Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure #4)
By Clive Cussler, Thomas Perry. 2012
After their adventures in The Kingdom (DB 73515), multimillionaire treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo help an archaeologist friend excavate…
the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun. But others are also after the riches that might be found there. Bestseller. 2012The storm: a novel from the NUMA files (The NUMA Files #No. 10)
By Clive Cussler, Graham Brown. 2012
National Underwater and Marine Agency head Dirk Pitt sends troubleshooters Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala to investigate a research vessel…
adrift in the Indian Ocean. When they discover that the crew perished from microbots, Austin and Zavala must determine who released them and why. Some violence. Bestseller. 2012The thief: an Isaac Bell adventure (An Isaac Bell Adventure #5)
By Clive Cussler, Justin Scott. 2012
Pre-World War I. Private detectives Isaac Bell and Archie Abbott are escorting a swindler to New York aboard the ocean…
liner Mauretania when Bell saves two fellow passengers--professor Franz Beiderbecke and his assistant--from German kidnappers. Beiderbecke fears the thugs were after his secret invention--and soon he disappears. Bestseller. 2012The race (An Isaac Bell Adventure #4)
By Clive Cussler, Justin Scott. 2011
1909. Newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway offers fifty thousand dollars to the first person to fly from New York to San…
Francisco in fewer than fifty days. To protect aviatrix Josephine Frost from her insane, murderous husband Harry during the competition, Whiteway hires PI Isaac Bell. Some violence. Bestseller. 2011Devil's gate: a novel from the NUMA files (The NUMA Files #No. 9)
By Clive Cussler, Graham Brown. 2011
When a Japanese cargo ship explodes off the coast of West Africa, Kurt Austin and his National Underwater Maritime Agency…
team fight pirates to rescue the survivors. They discover a magnetic underwater phenomenon and a plot by a Sierra Leone dictator to develop a new weapon. Some violence. Bestseller. 2011The kingdom (A Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure #3)
By Clive Cussler, Grant Blackwood. 2011
Sam and Remi Fargo, from Lost Empire (DB 71951), agree to help an oil baron locate both his missing father…
and investigator Frank Alton--the Fargos' friend--who disappeared while conducting the initial search. Their journey takes them across the world, where they make an extraordinary discovery. 2011Lost empire: A Fargo Adventure (A Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure #2)
By Clive Cussler, Grant Blackwood. 2010
Treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo, from Spartan Gold (DB 69719), go diving off Tanzania and discover a bell from…
a Confederate Civil War ship. While the Fargos attempt to decode the carvings on their find, Mexico's president dispatches his henchmen to foil them. Bestseller. 2010Medusa: a novel from the NUMA files (The NUMA Files Ser. #No. 8)
By Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos. 2009
Kurt Austin, project director for the National Underwater and Marine Agency, heads a deep-sea expedition during which a manned bathysphere…
is attacked. Austin and his colleagues link the incident to a Chinese criminal organization, a deadly influenza outbreak, and biomedical research involving a rare jellyfish species. Some violence. Bestseller. 2009Spartan gold (A Sam and Remi Fargo Adventure #1)
By Clive Cussler, Grant Blackwood. 2009
Treasure-hunting couple Sam and Remi Fargo discover a World War II-era midget torpedo submarine in a Maryland swamp. Inside the…
craft they spot one of Napoleon Bonaparte's rare bottles of wine and begin searching for the entire collection--but they are not the only ones interested in finding it. Bestseller. 2009Fast Ice
By Clive Cussler, Graham Brown. 2021
Kurt Austin races to Antarctica to stop a chilling plot that imperils the entire planet in the latest novel from…
the #1 New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of Adventure. In the early days of World War II, the infamous German Luftwaffe embark upon an expedition to Antarctica, hoping to set up a military base to support their goal of world domination. Though the military outpost never comes to fruition, what the Nazis find on the icy continent indeed proves dangerous...and will have implications far into the future. In the present day, Kurt Austin and his assistant Joe Zavala embark for the freezing edge of the world after a former NUMA colleague disappears in Antarctica. While there, they discover a photo of the Luftwaffe expedition of 1939, and are drawn into a decades-old conspiracy. Even as they confront perilous waters and frigid temperatures, they are also are up against a terrifying man-made weapon—a fast-growing ice that could usher in a new Ice Age. Pitted against a determined madman and a monstrous storm, Kurt and the NUMA team must unravel the Nazi-era plot in order to save the globe from a freeze that would bury it once and for all.The navigator: a novel from the NUMA files (The NUMA Files Ser. #No. 7)
By Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos. 2007
Kurt Austin of the National Underwater and Marine Agency foils an attempt to steal an ancient Phoenician statue called the…
Navigator and in the process saves U.N. investigator Carina Mechadi. Their inquiry reveals a ruthless businessman and connections to Thomas Jefferson and King Solomon's treasure. Some violence. Bestseller. 2007Blue gold: a novel from the Numa files (The NUMA Files Ser. #No. 2)
By Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos. 2000
When National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) investigators Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala hit a pod of dead whales during…
a boat race, it sets off an inquiry that leads to an eco-extortionist's plot to control the world's freshwater supply. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2000Mirage (Oregon files. #9.)
By Clive Cussler, Jack B Du Brul. 2013
In October 1943, a U.S. destroyer sailed out of Philadelphia and supposedly vanished, the result of a Navy experiment with…
electromagnetic radiation. The story was considered a hoax - but now Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon colleagues aren't so sure. There are rumours of a new weapon soon to be auctioned, something very dangerous to America's interests, and the rumours link it to the great inventor Nikola Tesla, who was working with the Navy when he died in 1943. Was he responsible for the experiment? Are his notes in the hands of enemies? As Cabrillo races to find the truth, he discovers there is even more at stake than he could have imagined - but by the time he realizes it, he may already be too late. Sequel to "The jungle". Bestseller. 2013.