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The striker (Isaac Bell Adventure. #6.)
By Clive Cussler, Justin Scott. 2013
It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at…
the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines, he is witness to a terrible accident that makes him think that something else is going on, that provocateurs are at work and bigger stakes are in play. Sequel to "The thief", followed by "The bootlegger". 2013.The storm (NUMA files. #10.)
By Clive Cussler, Graham Brown. 2013
In the middle of the Indian Ocean, a NUMA research vessel is taking water samples at sunset, when a crew…
member spots a sheen of black oil ahead of them. But it is not oil. Like a horde of army ants, a swarm of black particles suddenly attacks the ship, killing everyone aboard, while the ship itself goes up in flames. A few hours later, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are on their way to the Indian Ocean. What they will find there on the smouldering hulk of the ship will eventually lead them to the discovery of the most audacious scheme they have ever known: a plan to permanently alter the weather on a global scale. It will kill millions and it has already begun. 2013.Zero hour (NUMA files. #11.)
By Clive Cussler, Graham Brown. 2013
It is called zero point energy, and it really exists - a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere,…
and thus all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, until one scientist discovers a way. Or at least he thinks he has. The problem is, his machines also cause great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other is submerged in a vast ocean trench. If Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala and the rest of the NUMA team aren't able to find and destroy them, and soon, the world will be on the threshold of a new era of earth tremors and unchecked volcanism. Sequel to "The storm", followed by "Ghost ship". 2013.The eye of heaven
By Clive Cussler, Russell Blake. 2014
The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times'bestselling author. Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami 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. How can that be' As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary Toltec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl'and a fabled object known as the Eye of Heaven'begin to emerge. But so do many dangerous people. Soon the Fargos find themselves on the run through jungles, temples, and secret tombs, caught between treasure hunters, crime cartels, and those with a far more personal motivation for stopping them. At the end of the road will be the solution to a thousand-year-old mystery'or death.The pharaoh's secret
By Clive Cussler, Graham Brown. 2015
Kurt and Joe tangle with the most determined enemy they've ever encountered when a ruthless powerbroker schemes to build a…
new Egyptian empire as glorious as those of the Pharaohs. Part of his plan rests on the manipulation of a newly discovered aquifer beneath the Sahara, but an even more devastating weapon at his disposal may threaten the entire world: a plant extract known as the black mist, discovered in the City of the Dead and rumored to have the power to take life from the living and restore it to the dead. With the balance of power in Africa and Europe on the verge of tipping, Kurt, Joe, and the rest of the NUMA team will have to fight to discover the truth behind the legends-but to do that, they have to confront in person the greatest legend of them all: Osiris, the ruler of the Egyptian underworld.The solomon curse
By Clive Cussler, Russell Blake. 2015
There are many rumors about the bay off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Some say it was the site of…
the lost empire of the Solomon king and that great treasure lies beneath the waters. Others say terrible things happened here, atrocities and disappearances at the hands of cannibal giants, and those who venture there do not return. It is cursed. Which is exactly what attracts the attention of husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo. How could they resist? Clues and whispers lead them on a hunt from the Solomons to Australia to Japan, and what they find at the end of the trail is both wonderful and monstrous-and like nothing they have ever seen before.Nighthawk (NUMA Files. #[bk. 14])
By Clive Cussler, Graham Brown. 2017
NUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the world's most dazzling new technological…
advance from becoming mankind's last in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. Russia and China covet the radical technology, but the United States worries about a darker problem. They know what others don't-that the X-37 is carrying a dangerous secret, a payload of exotic matter, extracted from the upper reaches of the atmosphere and stored at a temperature near absolute zero. As long as it remains frozen, the cargo is inert, but if it thaws, it will unleash a catastrophe of nearly unthinkable proportions. From the Galapagos Islands to the jungles of South America to an icy mountain lake many believe to be the birthplace of the Inca, the entire NUMA team will risk everything in an effort to avert disaster...but they may be caught in a race that no one can win.Piranha
By Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison. 2015
In 1902, a volcano wipes out an entire city and sinks a ship carrying a German scientist on the verge…
of an astonishing breakthrough. More than a century later--learning that a traitorous American weapons designer has completed the German's work--the Oregon crew races to stop an attack. Sequel to "Mirage", followed by "The Emperor's revenge". 2015.The cutthroat (Isaac Bell Adventures. #[bk. 10])
By Clive Cussler, Justin Scott. 2017
Isaac Bell may be on the hunt for the greatest monster of all time in the newest action-adventure novel from…
#1 New York Times-bestselling author Clive Cussler. The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt which leads him into increasingly more alarming territory. Anna Pape was not alone in her fate-petite young blond women like Anna are being murdered in cities across America. And the pattern goes beyond the physical resemblance of the victims-there are disturbing familiarities about the killings themselves that send a chill through even a man as experienced with evil as Bell. If he is right about his fears, then he is on the trail of one of the greatest monsters of his time.The assassin
By Clive Cussler, Justin Scott. 2015
As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil…
monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassin'shooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long range'kills Bell's best witness, a brave and likable man. Then the shooter detonates a terrible explosion that sets the victim's independent refinery ablaze. Bell summons his best detectives to scour the site of the crime for evidence. Who is the assassin and for whom did he kill? But the murders- shootings, poisonings, staged accidents- have just begun as Bell tracks his phantom-like criminal adversary from the "oil fever" regions of Kansas and Texas to Washington, D.C., to the tycoons' enclave of New York, to Russia's war-torn Baku oil fields on the Caspian Sea, and back to America for a final, desperate confrontation.The gray ghost (Fargo Adventures. #[bk. 10])
By Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell. 2018
The search for a legendary automobile threatens the careers and lives of husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo in this…
thrilling new adventure in Clive Cussler's bestselling series. In 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Gray Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever. Not even he can save the good name of Jonathan Payton, however, the man wrongly blamed for the theft, and more than a hundred years later, it is his grandson who turns to Sam and Remi Fargo to help prove his grandfather's innocence. But there is even more at stake than any of them know. For the car has vanished again, and in it is an object so rare that it has the capacity to change lives. Men with everything to gain and a great deal to lose have a desperate plan to find it'and if anybody gets in their way' They have a plan for that, too.The rising sea (NUMA Files. #[bk. 15])
By Clive Cussler, Graham Brown. 2018
Everywhere, the waters are rising-and that is just the beginning of the world's peril, unless the NUMA crew can beat…
the clock. The thrilling new NUMA Files novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. An alarming rise in the world's sea levels-much larger than could be accounted for by glacier melt-sends Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA scientific team rocketing around the globe in search of answers. What they find at the bottom of the East China Sea, however, is even worse than they imagined: a diabolical plan to upset the Pacific balance of power-and in the process displace as many as a billion people. A rare alloy unlike anything else on earth, a pair of 500-year-old Japanese talismans, an assassin so violent even the Yakuza has disowned him, an audacious technological breakthrough that will become a very personal nightmare for Kurt Austin - from the shark-filled waters of Asia to the high-tech streets of Tokyo to a forbidden secret island, the NUMA team must risk everything to head off the coming catastrophe.The Romanov ransom (Fargo Adventures. #[bk. 9])
By Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell. 2017
Treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo's search for a Romanov fortune brings them into perilous contact with an ambitious neo-Nazi…
clan in this thrilling adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. In 1918, a ransom of enormous size was paid to free the Romanovs from the Bolsheviks, but, as history knows, the Romanovs died anyway. And the ransom' During World War II, the Nazis stole it from the Russians, and after that--it vanished. Until now. When a modern-day kidnapping captures the attention of husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo, the couple soon learn that these long-lost riches may be back in play, held in trust by the descendants of a Nazi guerrilla faction called the Werewolves. It is their mission to establish the Fourth Reich, and their time is coming soon. As the Fargos follow the trail across Europe, Northern Africa, and South America, they know only one thing. This quest is greater than anything they have ever done--it is their chance to make someone answer for unspeakable crimes, and to prevent them from happening again.The emperor's revenge
By Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison. 2016
The new Oregon Files adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. Juan Cabrillo and the crew…
of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation's accounts. To get the money back, Juan joins forces with an old friend from his days in the CIA so they can track down a rogue hacker and a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer. It is only after the hunt begins that the enormity of the plan comes into focus: the bank theft is just the first step in a plot that will result in the deaths of millions and bring the world's economies to a standstill. The catalyst for the scheme' A stunning document stolen during Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia. But two hundred years later, it may be the thing that brings Europe to its knees. From the Hardcover edition.Pirate
By Clive Cussler, Robin Burcell. 2016
The outstanding new Sam and Remi Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. An 800-year-old treasure...'n ancient cypher…
wheel...' brutal murder...'nd a man who will stop at nothing to claim what he considers rightfully his. Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo have gone on impossible missions before and faced many perils, but never have they faced an adversary as determined as the one before them now. The battle will take them halfway around the world, and at its end will be either one of the most glorious finds in history-or certain death. From the Hardcover edition.The gangster
By Clive Cussler, Justin Scott. 2016
It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a…
spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special "Black Hand Squad," but the gangsters appear to be everywhere-so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last, and as Bell discovers, to his dismay, the ultimate target may be the most powerful man of all. From the Hardcover edition.Final Option (Oregon Files #14)
By Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison. 2019
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon are back with a new adventure in this thrilling suspense novel in…
Clive Cussler's #1 New York Times bestselling series. Juan Cabrillo and his team of expert operatives return in this latest entry in Clive Cussler's Oregon Files series. Aboard the Oregon, one of the most advanced spy ships ever built, they face new challenges and nemeses as they undertake another dangerous mission.Medusa (NUMA Files #8)
By Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos. 2009
In the Micronesian islands, a top-secret U.S. governmentsponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known as…
the Blue Medusa suddenly disappears. At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless a half-mile below the surface, its passengersincluding Zavalaleft to die. Only Kurt Austin's heroic measures save them from a watery grave, but suspecting a connection, Austin puts the NUMA team on the case. He has no idea what he's just gotten them all into. A hideous series of medical experiments . . . an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization . . . a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic. Austin and Zavala have been in tight spots before, but this time it's not just their own skins they're trying to saveit's the lives of millions.Spartan Gold (Fargo Adventures #1)
By Clive Cussler, Grant Blackwood. 2009
The extraordinary new adventure series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, Clive Cussler, features a husband-and-wife team who…
hunt treasure for a livingeven at the risk of dying. . . . Thousands of years ago, two superpowers of the ancient world went to war, and a treasure of immeasurable value was lost to the shadows of history. In 1800, while crossing the Pennine Alps with his Grand Reserve Army, Napoleon Bonaparte stumbled across a startling discovery. Unable to transport it, he created an enigmatic map on the labels of twelve bottles of rare wine. When Napoleon died, the bottles disappearedand the treasure was lost again. Until now. Treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Maryland when they discover a World War II German U-boat. Inside, they find a bottle taken from Napoleon's famous "Lost Cellar," and set out to find the rest of the collection. But another connoisseur of sorts is hunting his own prize, and the Lost Cellar is his key to finding it. That man is Hadeon Bondaruk, a half-Russian, half-Persian millionaire, and the treasure will be his, no matter what.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.