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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.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.The 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 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 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. 2011The wrecker (An Isaac Bell Adventure Ser. #2)
By Clive Cussler, Justin Scott. 2009
1907. A saboteur known as the Wrecker is derailing Southern Pacific trains, and the Van Dorn Detective Agency sends Isaac…
Bell to track him down. Bell heads to Oregon, where a new line is being built. Sequel to The Chase (RC 65426). Some violence. 2009Blue 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. 2000El oro de Esparta (Las aventuras de Fargo #Volumen 1)
By Clive Cussler, Grant Blackwood. 2012
Los cazadores de tesoros Sam y Remy Fargo irán en busca de un tesoro perdido que perteneció a las antiguas…
civilizaciones persas y que luego cayó en manos de Napoleón. En el año 1800, mientras cruzaba los Alpes Peninos con sus tropas, Napoleón realizó un hallazgo asombroso: un tesoro persa perdido hacía siglos. Incapaz de transportarlo, dibujó en doce botellas de vino un enigmático mapa. A su muerte, el emperador se llevó consigo su último secreto, pues la curiosa bodega se dispersó por el mundo. Sam y Remy Fargo, dueños de la Fundación Fargo, están rastreando tesoros en Maryland. Lo que hallan en el fondo de un pantano no es lo que esperaban: un pequeño submarino de la Segundo Guerra Mundial. En su interior hay una extraña botella, que tal vez perteneciera a la mítica reserva personal de Napoleón. Fascinados por el descubrimiento, no tardarán en emprender la búsqueda del resto de la colección. Pero Hadeon Bondaruk, unoscuro millonario mitad ruso mitad persa, también anda tras la pista de las botellas. Él sabe que son la antesala de una presa mayor, el legendario tesoro de Jerjes, el conquistador que desafió a Esparta en la batalla de las Termópilas. Está convencido de que el tesoro le pertenece a él por derecho de herencia y de que nada ni nadie logrará interponerse en su camino. La crítica ha dicho...«Una novela potente, como es costumbre en Cussler. Seguro que agradará a todos sus fans.»Publishers WeeklyThe Wrecker (An Isaac Bell Adventure #2)
By Clive Cussler, Justin Scott. 2010
A man known only as the Wrecker is sabotaging the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line. Whoever he is, whatever…
his motives, he's building up to a grand act unlike anything ever committed before. And only private detective Isaac Bell can stop him...Serpent: 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.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.