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Alors qu'il s'apprête enfin à célébrer son mariage à bord du paquebot Mauretania, Isaac Bell vole au secours de deux…
hommes agressés en pleine nuit : des scientifiques, le professeur Beiderbecke et son jeune assistant Clyde Lynds, peu enclins malgré tout à se confier au brillant détective de l'agence Van Dorn. Quelques jours plus tard, le professeur est retrouvé à l'agonie, enfermé dans une malle. Dès lors, Clyde Lynds n'a d'autre choix que de se confier à Isaac Bell s'il veut garder la vie sauve et protéger leur invention des convoitises qu'elle suscite... Mais les grandes firmes auxquelles il souhaite vendre son dispositif révolutionnaire ne sont visiblement pas les seules intéressées. Dans l'ombre, le mystérieux acrobate, et derrière lui le Deuxième Reich, semblent prêts à tout pour mettre la main sur ce formidable outil de propagande. 2016.
A group of archaeologists is exploring a Peruvian sinkhole and gets in trouble. Dirk Pitt happens to be in the…
neighbourhood and comes to their aid. But the rescue simply sets in motion a series of events that find Pitt looking for lost treasure, being captured by a band of art smugglers, and swimming through an uncharted underground river. Bestseller. Sequel to "Sahara", followed by "Shock wave". 1994. (Dirk Pitt novel ; 12)
In 1906, the U.S. government hires no-nonsense detective Isaac Bell to apprehend a murderous bank robber nicknamed the Butcher Bandit.…
Bell pursues his quarry throughout the Wild West, arriving in San Francisco during a disastrous earthquake and fire. Bell soon discovers that he, too, is being hunted. Some violence. 2007
Kurt Austin est blessé lors d'une opération de sauvetage à bord d'un yacht. Le lendemain, ses souvenirs sont confus. Il…
ne sait plus si son amie Sienna et la fille de celle-ci, ont péri noyées ou si le bateau était abandonné lorsqu'il est monté à bord. Se méfiant de sa mémoire, il est déterminé à découvrir la vérité et se trouve bientôt plongé dans un sombre univers de cybercrimes d'Etats.
Dirk Pitt was astonished to discover that he had two grown children he had never known, 23-year-old twins born to…
a woman he thought had died in an underwater earthquake. Both have inherited his love of the sea, and now they are about to help their father in the adventure of a lifetime. The two young people are working in a NUMA underwater enclosure off the shore of Nicaragua, trying to determine its origin. Then the worst storm in years boils up out of the sky, heading not only straight for them but also for a luxurious floating resort hotel.
After meeting their father for the first time in Valhalla Rising, twins Summer and Dirk work for marine agency NUMA…
investigating a brown tide in the Caribbean, where they discover mysterious ancient relics. Meanwhile Dirk Sr. rushes to save a floating resort from a deadly hurricane. Some violence. Bestseller. 2003.
In the middle of its maiden voyage, the luxury cruise ship "Emerald Dolphin" suddenly catches fire and sinks. What caused…
it? Why didn't the alarms go off? National Underwater Maritime Administration (NUMA) special projects director Dirk Pitt races to rescue the passengers and investigate the disaster, but he has no idea of the bizarre events that are about to engulf him. 2001.
Dirk Pitt, on board an oceanographic survey vessel, helps rescue passengers from a luxury cruise ship that mysteriously catches fire…
on its maiden voyage. One of the survivors is Kelly Egan who has managed to save her father's papers, only to have her life threatened. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2001.
Artifacts from ancient civilizations are popping up everywhere and Dirk Pitt, his associate Al Giordino, and archaeologist/linguist Patricia O'Connell are…
investigating. But the Fourth Empire, a terrorist group led by the Wolf family, is determined to stop them and take over the entire world. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 1999.
In the year 2000 Dirk Pitt of the National Underwater and Marine Agency is working with immigration officials to stop…
the smuggling of Chinese workers into the United States. Gangster Qin Shang has even built a port in Louisiana to unload the illegals. Pitt is also investigating a rumor of a shipwrecked Chinese vessel bearing a load of treasure. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller.
A Chinese businessman is making a fortune smuggling immigrants into countries around the globe. Tracking the smuggler leads Dirk Pitt…
from Washington State to a shipping port in Louisiana. The trail then leads to the race to find a sunken ship filled with treasure. As Pitt prepares for a dramatic showdown, he is faced with the most formidable foe he has ever encountered. c1997.
In the 1850s, a male and a female prisoner survive a shipwreck and find diamonds on an island. In the…
year 2000, their descendant Arthur Dorsett plans to topple the diamond market with a flood of gems. His mining techniques are causing an "acoustic plague" that kills animals and humans. Investigating these odd deaths, Dirk Pitt meets Arthur's daughter Maeve, who is quite different from her father. Violence and some strong language. Bestseller.
A group of archaeologists is exploring a Peruvian sinkhole and gets in trouble. Dirk Pitt happens to be in the…
neighborhood and comes to their aid. But the rescue simply sets in motion a series of events that find Pitt looking for lost treasure, being captured by a band of art smugglers, and swimming through an uncharted underground river. Violence and strong language. Bestseller.
Dirk Pitt, whose most recent adventure was "Treasure", is back, this time battling a Japanese crime cartel. Pitt is searching…
the ocean bottom for a lost atomic bomb - a relic of World War II. Meanwhile, topside, the cartel, from its secret "Dragon Center," is smuggling atomic bombs into the United States. Can Pitt save the world from atomic destruction? Bestseller. 1990.
Dirk Pitt, whose most recent adventure was "Treasure," is back, this time battling a Japanese crime cartel. Pitt is searching…
the ocean bottom for a lost atomic bomb--a relic of World War II. Meanwhile, topside, the cartel, from its secret "Dragon Center," is smuggling atomic bombs into the United States. Can Pitt save the world from atomic destruction? Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller.
Two agents race to uncover the North American treaty which has been hidden for 75 years. The treaty is worth…
billions to America, but could mean war for Great Britain. Explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 1981.
The towering iceberg drifting in the North Atlantic was a floating tomb, for embedded in it was a ship -…
sealed in so solidly that not even its mast protruded. Here was a sea mystery to rank with the Bermuda Triangle and the Marie Celeste. But for Major Dirk Pitt, top troubleshooter for the National Underwater and Marine Agency, it was also the first link in a fantastic chain of events that would lead him too close to violent death. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language, descriptions of violence. 2004, c1975.
Suspense caper features--and ingeniously connects--a maverick American colony on the Moon, a fabulous sunken treasure sought by an unscrupulous, blimp-owning…
financier, and Soviet schemes to steal U.S. space secrets and to replace Fidel Castro with a Kremlin puppet. The action involves murder and torture as well as superpower politicking. Bestseller 1985