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The Storm (Numa Files #10)
By Clive Cussler, Graham Brown. 2012
In the middle of the Indian Ocean, a NUMA research vessel is taking water samples when a crew member spots…
a patch of black oil ahead of them. But the substance is not oil. Like a horde of army ants, a swarm of black particles from the spoiled sea suddenly attacks, killing everyone aboard while the ship goes up in flames. A few hours later, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are on their way to the Indian Ocean. What they find on the smoldering hulk of the ship will eventually lead them to discover the most audacious scheme they have ever encountered: a plan to permanently alter the weather on a global scale. The insidious plot will kill millions...and it has already begun.Golden Buddha (Oregon Files #1)
By Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo. 2003
Juan Cabrillo's first adventure with the Oregon-a state of the art spy ship disguised as a nondescript lumber hauler-takes him…
and his crew into dangerous waters, as they try to put Tibet back in the hands of the Dalai Lama by striking a deal with the Russians and the Chinese. Cabrillo's gambling chip is a golden Buddha containing records of vast oil reserves in the disputed land. But first, he'll have to locate-and steal-the all-important artifact. And there are certain people who would do anything in their power to see him fail...Typhoon Fury (The Oregon Files #12)
By Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison. 2017
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon sail into a perfect storm of danger when they try to stop…
a new world war in this thrilling novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. Hired to search for a collection of paintings worth half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon soon find themselves in much deeper waters. The vicious leader of a Filipino insurgency is not only using them to finance his attacks, he has stumbled upon one of the most lethal secrets of World War II: a Japanese-developed drug, designed, but never used, to turn soldiers into super-warriors. To stop him, the Oregon must not only take on the rebel commander, but a South African mercenary intent on getting his own hands on the drug, a massive swarm of torpedo drones targeting the U.S. Navy, an approaching megastorm, and, just possibly, a war that could envelop the entire Asian continent. A New York Times BestsellerFast Ice: A Novel From The Numa® Files (The NUMA Files #18)
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. A New York Times BestsellerFinal Option (The Oregon Files #14)
By Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison. 2019
In Final Option, Juan Cabrillo fights the worst enemy from his past to the terrifying and unexpected ending created by…
the Grand Master of Adventure, Clive Cussler, in the latest action-packed thriller in his #1 New York Times-bestselling series. When the CIA realizes the identities of three American spies in Brazil have been compromised, they turn to Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon to rescue the agents. What seems a routine operation turns out to be a trap designed by Juan Cabrillo's greatest enemy, a man driven by hate to seek the ultimate revenge. At the heart of the plot is a state-of-the-art ship that is identical to the Oregon: same weaponry, same technology, same ability to evade capture. The only thing it doesn't have is Cabrillo and his talented crew. But will they be enough to go up against the one ship that rivals their own? The crew of the Oregon must piece together a series of disturbing events, including the mysterious sinking of a nuclear attack submarine and the possible discovery of a WWII-era weapon that was thought to be lost in the jungles of Brazil, in the ultimate game of cat and mouse. A New York Times BestsellerExploradores del mar
By Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo. 1996
Un libro tan trepidante como las novelas de Cussler, e imprescindible para entender cómo se documenta para construir... La fragata…
unionista Cumberland, hundida por el acorazado confederado Virginia; el Hunley, primer submarino que hundió un barco de guerra; el submarino alemán U-21, que provocó el naufragio del trasatlántico Lusitania durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial; el trasatlántico belga Léopoldville, reconvertido al transporte de tropas y hundido por un torpedo alemán en la Nochebuena de 1944... Todos estos pecios han sido visitados por Clive Cussler que, además de un notable escritor de novelas de aventuras, es un apasionado de los naufragios acaecidos desde 1840 en las costas de Estados Unidos, el océano Atlántico y el mar del Norte. En Exploradores del mar, los lectores encontrarán la historia novelada del siniestro de estos y otros barcos, y las operaciones de búsqueda e investigación de cada uno de ellos explicadas hasta el más mínimo detalle. Un libro tan trepidante como las novelas de Cussler, e imprescindible para entender cómo se documenta para construir las aventuras del famoso Dirk Pitt. Reseña:«El magnífico estilo de Cussler y sus variadas experiencias en la búsqueda de tesoros históricos convierten este libro en un primera clase en el género de aventuras, que gustará por igual a los apasionados de la historia y a los fans de Pitt.»Publishers WeeklyMarauder (The Oregon Files #15)
By Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison. 2020
It is up to Juan Cabrillo and the crew of his ship, the Oregon, to stop a terrorist plot to…
release a deadly chemical weapon across the globe in the explosive new novel in Clive Cussler's #1 New York Times bestselling series. While interrupting an attack on a Kuwaiti oil tanker, Juan Cabrillo and his team discover something even more dangerous: a ruthless billionaire's dying wish has allowed a paralyzing chemical to end up in the hands of a terrorist group. When an Oregon crew member falls victim to the poison, Juan Cabrillo will stop at nothing to find an antidote before it is too late. He and his team must connect an ancient mystery with a cunning modern enemy in order to save millions of innocent lives, including their own. A New York Times BestsellerSerpent: A Novel from the NUMA files (Numa Files #Bk. 1)
By Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos. 1999
The author of sixteen consecutive New York Times bestsellers unleashes a hero for the next millennium in an electrifying new…
series of unrelenting action and edge-of-your-seat thrills. Clive Cussler introduces us to Kurt Austin, the courageous leader of the NUMA exploration team.When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater & Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent on carving a new nation out of the southwestern United States and Mexico, Halcon’s scheme hinges on Nina’s recent discovery involving Christopher Columbus, and a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity buried in the battered remains of the sunken Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria. Only Kurt Austin and his crack NUMA team stand between Halcon and the Andrea Doria’s silent steel hull—and if their deadly mission fails, Halcon will ride to power on a wave of death and destruction.Clive Cussler The Heist (An Isaac Bell Adventure #14)
By Jack Du Brul. 2024
Detective Isaac Bell faces an attack on the Federal Reserve in this all-new adventure in the #1 New York Times…
bestselling series from Clive Cussler.1914: As America&’s century of dominance dawns, the country&’s greatest detective, Van Dorn agent Isaac Bell, is pitted against a master thief and his assassin accomplice. They&’re plotting to pull off the greatest heist in America&’s history: the theft of a billion dollars from the newly created Federal Reserve.When an aerial attack is launched against Woodrow Wilson&’s yacht during a meeting among the Federal Reserve&’s branch leaders, Bell thwarts it, only to find that the strike was just the opening of an even deadlier gambit. It&’s up to Bell to find the link between the attack, the mysterious death of a Newport heiress, and growing evidence of an unimaginably audacious heist.Double-cross and betrayal are Bell&’s stock and trade, but this time, the deeper he delves into the puzzle, the less he seems to understand. He is in a race against his most ruthless opponent yet, to prevent a financial panic that would bring the United States to its knees.Clive Cussler The Sea Wolves (An Isaac Bell Adventure #13)
By Jack Du Brul. 2022
Detective Isaac Bell battles foreign spies, German U-boats, and an old nemesis to capture a secret technology that could alter…
the outcome of World War I in the latest adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler.As New England swelters in the summer of 1914, Detective Isaac Bell is asked to investigate the disappearance of a cache of rifles—only to discover something much more sinister. Whoever broke into this Winchester Factory wasn&’t looking to take weapons, they wanted to leave something in the shipping crates: a radio transmitter, set to summon a fleet of dreaded German U-boats. Someone is trying to keep American supplies from reaching British shores, and if Bell doesn&’t crack the conspiracy in time, the Atlantic Ocean will run red with blood.Bell must hunt down a new piece of technology that is allowing the Germans to rule the seas from New York to England. With the outcome of the war at stake and Franklin Roosevelt&’s orders on the line, Bell will risk everything to stop the U-Boats before they strike again.Mirage (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.Dark watch (Oregon files. #3)
By Clive Cussler, Jack B Du Brul. 2005
Juan Cabrillo and his crew aboard the spy ship Oregon are hired by Japanese shipping magnates to protect commercial freighters…
after several are stolen by pirates on the seas off Southeast Asia. Cabrillo discovers an international plot behind the thefts. Some violence and some strong language. 2005.Mirage (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.The Titanic Secret (Isaac Bell Adventures #11)
By Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul. 2019
Both a prequel and a sequel to Clive Cussler's first bestselling phenomenon, Raise the Titanic!, the new Isaac Bell novel…
is a thrilling action-adventure novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. A century apart, Dirk Pitt and Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time. In the present day, Dirk Pitt is must make a daring rescue from inside an antiquated submersible in the waters around New York City. His reward afterwards is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell-a document that re-opens a historical mystery... In 1911 Colorado, Isaac Bell is asked to look into an unexplained tragedy at Little Angel Mine, a disaster in which nine people died. His dangerous quest to answer that riddle leads to a larger one centered on a rare element with extraordinary powers and of virtually incalculable value. As he discovers that there are people who will do anything to control the substance, Isaac Bell will find out how far he'll go to stop them.Corsair (Oregon Files #6)
By Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul. 2009
Corsairs are pirates, and pirates come in many varieties. There are the pirates who fought in the sea off the…
Barbary Coast in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the contemporary pirates who infest the waters of Africa and Asia, and the pirates...?ho look like something else. When the U.S. secretary of state's plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Cabrillo to search for her, and the misgivings prove well founded. The crew locates the plane-but the secretary of state has vanished. A terrorist mastermind has other plans for the conference, plans that Cabrillo cannot let happen. But what does it all have to do with a two-hundred-year-old naval battle, and the centuries-old Islamic scrolls that the Libyans seem so determined to find? The answers will lead Cabrillo full circle into history, and into another pitched battle on the sea, this time against Islamic extremists, and with the fate of nations resting on its outcome.Plague Ship (Oregon Files #5)
By Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul. 2008
An exhilarating new adventure in the New York Times-bestselling Oregon Files series. For four novels, Clive Cussler has charted the…
exploits of the Oregon, a covert ship completely dilapidated on the outside but on the inside packed with sophisticated weaponry and intelligence-gathering equipment. Captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo and manned by a crew of former military and spy personnel, it is a private enterprise, available for any government agency that can afford it-and now Cussler sends the Oregon on its most extraordinary mission yet. The crew has just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf when they come across a cruise ship adrift at sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and, as Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship. Barely able to escape with his own life and that of the liner's sole survivor, Cabrillo finds himself plunged into a mystery as intricate-and as perilous-as any he has ever known and pitted against a cult with monstrously lethal plans for the human race...?lans he may already be too late to stop. "Readers will burn up the pages following the blazing action and daring exploits of these men and women and their amazing machines" (Publishers Weekly).The Silent Sea (Oregon Files #7)
By Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul. 2010
Clive Cussler's tales of the Oregon and its crew-"the clever, indefatigable Juan Cabrillo and his merry band of tough, tech-savvy…
fighting men and women" (Publishers Weekly)-have made fans of hundreds of thousands of readers. But the Oregon's seventh adventure is its most remarkable one yet. On December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the coast of Washington State make an exciting discovery, only to be interrupted by news of Pearl Harbor. In the present, Cabrillo, chasing the remnants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, makes a shocking discovery of his own. His search to untangle the mystery leads him first to that small island and its secret, and then much further back, to an ancient Chinese expedition, and a curse that seems to have survived for over five hundred years. If Cabrillo's team is successful in its quest, the reward could be incalculable. If not...?he only reward is death. From the Compact Disc edition.The jungle: a novel of the Oregon files (The Oregon Files #8)
By Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul. 2011
A powerful thirteenth-century weapon called the Dragon's Stare falls into the hands of a man intent on using it to…
bring down the U.S. government. Ex-CIA operative Juan Cabrillo and his crew on the Oregon race to foil the plot. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2011The silent sea: a novel of the Oregon files (The Oregon Files #7)
By Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul. 2010
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon search a militia-controlled Argentine jungle for a downed NASA satellite carrying plutonium.…
What they uncover leads them first to Antarctica and then to a forgotten discovery on an island off the coast of Washington state. Violence. Bestseller. 2010Corsair: a novel of the Oregon files (Oregon Files Ser. #6)
By Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul. 2009
Libya. A plane carrying U.S. Secretary of State Fiona Katamora crashes in the desert. When Juan Cabrillo and the crew…
of the spy vessel Oregon head to the port of Tripoli--a region once rife with pirates, or corsairs--to recover the wreckage, Juan discovers links to terrorists. Violence. Bestseller. 2009