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Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 4
Language
English
Description
The President's secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on an extremely rare radioactive element, and Dirk Pitt has followed a twisted trail to a secret cache of the substance. Now, racing against brutal storms, Soviet spies, and a ticking clock, Pitt begins his most thrilling mission--to raise from its watery grave the shipwreck of the century.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 5
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1978.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An African terrorist group acquires two canisters containing a virulent organism and threatens to attack Washington, D.C.
3) Night probe!
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1982.
Edition
Bantam paperback edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages : maps ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 11
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
541 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dirk Pitt rides a tidal wave of intrigue in this classic Cussler.
On an isolated Greek island, a World War I fighter plane attacks a modern U.S. Air Force base—a mysterious saboteur preys on an American scientific expedition—and Dirk Pitt plays a deadly game of hunter and hunted with the elusive head of an international smuggling ring.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 13
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
537 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 14
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
511 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marine explorer Dirk Pitt faces off against an elite army from an era gone-by in order to uncover the secrets of an ancient civilization in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
A group of anthropologists uncover strange inscriptions on the wall of a Colorado mine just as an explosion traps them deep within the earth. But their work won’t stay buried long. Dirk Pitt is on hand during the blast and quick to initiate...
A group of anthropologists uncover strange inscriptions on the wall of a Colorado mine just as an explosion traps them deep within the earth. But their work won’t stay buried long. Dirk Pitt is on hand during the blast and quick to initiate...
10) Valhalla rising
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marine explorer Dirk Pitt must rely on the nautical lore of Jules Verne to stop a ruthless oil baron with his sights set on political power in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
In the middle of its maiden voyage, a luxury cruise ship using revolutionary new engines suddenly catches fire and sinks. Its alarms stay silent; its sprinkler system remains inactive. Nearby NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt notices...
In the middle of its maiden voyage, a luxury cruise ship using revolutionary new engines suddenly catches fire and sinks. Its alarms stay silent; its sprinkler system remains inactive. Nearby NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt notices...
11) Trojan odyssey
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his first adventure since the revelation that he’s a parent, Dirk Pitt must uncover the truth behind the myth of another long-lost father-figure, Homer’s Odysseus, if he’s going to stop a dangerous cult from reshaping the earth in their own image.
Fraternal twins, Summer Pitt and Dirk Pitt, Jr., are working to determine the origin of a strange brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua when...
Fraternal twins, Summer Pitt and Dirk Pitt, Jr., are working to determine the origin of a strange brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua when...
12) Black wind
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 18
Language
English
Description
In the final days of World War II, the Japanese launch two submarines carrying a new strain of a deadly virus to the west coast of the United States, but years after the subs are lost at sea, someone plots to use their deadly cargo.
13) Deep six
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 7
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Pocket Star books premium edition.
Physical Desc
535 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dirk Pitt is up against a sinister Asian shipping family and a Soviet plot to use the president of the United States for their own purposes through mind control.
14) Dragon
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 10
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Pocket books premium edition.
Physical Desc
602 pages : map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Adventurer Dirk Pitt matches wits with a group of Japanese nationalist extremists out to establish a new empire as he races against time to recover an atomic bomb lost in the Pacific aboard a B-29 during World War II.
15) Treasure of Khan
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an oil survey team is abducted after a suspicious accident, Dirk Pitt follows leads to Mongolia, where he learns about a megalomaniac's plot to supply oil to China and to undermine global oil markets.
16) Arctic drift
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 20
Language
English
Description
A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war . . . NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to...
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 11
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Pocket Star Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
693 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dirk Pitt searches for a 2500-year-old pharaoh, investigates a biological disaster that threatens the world's oxygen supply, rescues a gorgeous international diplomat from imminent assassination, uncovers a nuclear waste spill that turns thousands of tribal Africans into crazed cannibals, solves the disappearance of an aviator over the Sahara in the 1930s, and reveals the great unknown secret behind the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
18) Crescent dawn
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 21
Language
English
Description
NUMA director Dirk Pitt searches for the connections among newly discovered Roman artifacts, the rise of a fundamentalist movement, and the existence of a mysterious long-lost "manifest, " which, if discovered again, may change the history of the world.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 9
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
678 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dirk Pitt's hunt for ancient Egyptian treasure is sidetracked when the White House is threatened by terrorists from Egypt and Mexico and a cruise ship carrying the presidents of Egypt and Mexico is hijacked.
20) Poseidon's arrow
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 22
Language
English
Description
Ruthless Austrian entrepreneur Edward Bolcke has managed to steal a crucial component of the U.S. Navy's latest submarine technology--and he has found a way to hijack the world's supply of rare earth minerals. The three Pitts, along with longstanding sidekick Al Giordino, use their usual mix of brains and brawn to see that justice is served
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