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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. Sequel to "Atlantis found", followed by "Trojan odyssey". 2001. (Dirk Pitt novel ; 16)
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
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.
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.
Dirk Pitt meets an intriguing and sinister villain, in a conflict that is waged above and below the sea for…
the survival of sea creatures and human beings. Through trials by storms, hunger and thirst, Pitt's genius and drive eventually bring him to a spine chilling confrontation with Arthur Dorsett, at the heart of his domain: a confrontation in which Pitt gains triumph at the cost of great personal loss. 1996.
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.
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.
West Africa. Dirk Pitt seeks the origin of a red tide threatening global oxygen supplies. As Pitt and sidekick Al…
Giordino track pollutants, they suffer enslavement in a coal mine, rescue a woman from cannibalistic nomads, discover a hazardous-waste disposal plant, and find a long-missing pilot's body. Some violence. 1992.
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.
A Luftwaffe ace, a Nazi war criminal, a beautiful and untrustworthy brunette, and a deadly billion-dollar cargo become the objects…
of a desperate search as Dirk Pitt matches wits with the elusive leader of an international smuggling ring. 2004.
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
When the great library of Alexandria was sacked in A.D. 391, perhaps some of its fabulous art treasures and volumes…
from its library escaped the flames and were ferried across the Atlantic. This is the premise of a suspense caper that features green-eyed Dirk Pitt, a James Bond type whom "no woman could completely possess." Some strong language. Bestseller. 1988.
When the great library of Alexandria was sacked in A.D. 391, perhaps some of its fabulous art treasures and volumes…
from its library escaped the flames and were ferried across the Atlantic. This is the premise of a suspense caper that features green-eyed Dirk Pitt, a James Bond type whom "no woman could completely possess." Some strong language. Bestseller.