Showing results by author "Clive Cussler" in Crime Thrillers

A hundred and forty years after a British ship wrecks on the way to an Australian penal colony and the survivors discover diamonds on the tropical island where they wash up, Maeve Fletcher, one of their descendants, is stranded on an island in Antarctica with a party of passengers after their cruise ship seemingly abandons them. Dirk Pitt, on an expedition to find the source of a deadly plague that is killing dolphins and seals in the Weddell Sea, finds Maeve and the passengers and rescues them from death.

It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special Black Hand Squad, but the gangsters appear to be everywhere - so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect.

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.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Grey Ghost by Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell, read by Scott Brick. In 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Grey Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever. Not even he can save the good name of Marcus Peyton, however, the man wrongly blamed for the theft, and more than a hundred years later, it is his grandson who turns to Sam and Remi Fargo to help prove his grandfather's innocence.

The murder of a team of UN scientists while investigating mysterious deaths in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off Detroit. An attack from tomb raiders on an archaeological site along the Nile. Is there a link between these violent events? The answer may lie with the tale of an Egyptian princess forced to flee the armies of her father 3,000 years ago. From the desert sands of Egypt to the rocky isles of Ireland to the deepwater lochs of Scotland, only Dirk Pitt can unravel the secrets of an ancient enigma that could change the very future of mankind.

Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation's accounts. To get the money back, Juan joins forces with an old friend from his days in the CIA, so they can track down a rogue hacker and a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer. It is only after the hunt begins that the enormity of the plan comes into focus: the bank theft is just the first step in a plot that will result in the deaths of millions and bring the world's economies to a standstill.

Seventy years after the end of World War II, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon find themselves in deep waters as they try to stop a war that would engulf the entire continent of Asia. A search for an art collection worth half a billion dollars leads the Oregon to Salvador Locsin, the vicious Filipino rebel leader. But with access to a powerful serum designed to create an army of supersoldiers, Locsin's insurgency threatens more than just the Philippines.

Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon are back with a new adventure in this thrilling suspense novel in Clive Cussler's number one New York Times best-selling series. Juan Cabrillo and his team of expert operatives return in this latest entry in Clive Cussler's Oregon Files series. Aboard the Oregon, one of the most advanced spy ships ever built, they face new challenges and nemeses as they undertake another dangerous mission.

The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt which leads him into increasingly more alarming territory.

After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three oil rigs trying to revive a dying field, Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Projects Team are tapped by the President of the United States to find out what's gone wrong. The trail leads them to a brilliant billionaire in the alternative energy field. Her goal is the end of the oil age; her company has spent billions developing the world's most advanced fuel-cell systems. But is she an environmental hero...or a rogue genetic engineer?

When Dirk Pitt of NUMA is almost blown to pieces in a lab explosion, he suspects sabotage. The lab in question belongs to a scientist hoping to use a rare mineral to combat greenhouse gases - but who would want to destroy our one chance to save the planet? But there are those who will do anything to control such a valuable prize. Pitt's investigations take him to the Arctic in search of a clue to the origins of this precious mineral. There he and NUMA colleague Al Giordino must battle for survival against the hostile elements and an evil megalomaniac.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Race by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott, read by Scott Brick. 1910, and America's first ever cross-country flying race has been sabotaged. Newspaper magnate Preston Whiteway is offering a big prize for the first aviator to cross America in under fifty days. He wants Josephine Frost - the country's leading, as well as most glamorous pilot - to win. Which is why he's hired Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency.

Sam und Remi Fargo sind in Mexiko, um nach einem Erdbeben zu helfen. Da werden sie Zeugen einer überragenden Entdeckung: Ein Buch der Maya, größer und detailreicher als jedes andere bekannte Exemplar. Das Buch enthält geheimes Wissen, das in den falschen Händen verheerend für die Menschheit wäre. Sams und Remis Bemühungen, das Buch in Sicherheit zu bringen, treiben sie in die Arme einer kriminellen Organisation von solchen Ausmaßen, wie nicht einmal die beiden Schatzjäger sie sich jemals hätten vorstellen können.

Jakten efter evigt liv. Ett enzym som skulle kunna användas till att förlänga människans livslängd dramatiskt har hittats på flera hundra meters djup i den norra Atlanten, i ett område som kallas Den förlorade staden. Men varför mördas alla som försöker fånga det? Varför försvinner personal från ett grekiskt laboratorium en efter en? Och vad har detta för samband med den kropp som hittas i en glaciär i Alperna? För Kurt Austin och Joe Zavala som arbetar för NUMA, Nationella byrån för undervattens- och marinarbeten, står det snart klart att de har ett uppdrag framför sig som är större än de kan ana.

En antikhandlare mördas kallblodigt i Bagdad. Mördarna är ute efter Navigatören, en sedan länge försvunnen fenicisk staty. Men varför är den så viktig och vart har den tagit vägen? Jakten på svar tar Kurt Austin och hans NUMA-team med på en osannolik odyssé. En resa som inbegriper kung Salomos skatt, dokument skrivna i kod av Thomas Jefferson samt ett topphemligt vetenskapligt projekt. Statyn visar sig bara vara en liten bit i ett betydligt större pussel.

När natt blir dag och nord blir syd ... Fredliga späckhuggare som plötsligt anfaller människor, kilometerstora strömvirvlar, gigantiska tsunamivågor som dränker skepp till havs - något märkligt är på gång i världens hav ... Polskifte, att jordens magnetiska poler kastas om, är ett fenomen som i bästa fall "bara" stör djurs naturliga instinkter och som skadar elektronisk utrustning. Men i värsta fall kan de orsaka naturkatastrofer som betyder slutet på allt liv på jorden.

En häftig konfrontation till havs mellan en radikal miljörättsorganisation och ett danskt örlogsskepp får de båda fartygen att sjunka. Det är Kurt Austin och hans kollega Joe Zavala från NUMA, Nationella byrån för undervattens- och marinarbeten, som får uppdraget att rädda de nödställda. Men när de avslutat räddningsaktionen inser de att detta inte var en engångsföreteelse och att något mycket olycksbådande är på gång.

År 327 lämnar en romersk galär hamn med en ovanlig last ombord. Galären utsätts för en piratattack och undkommer med en hårsmån. År 1916 exploderar ett brittiskt krigsfartyg och sjunker i Nordsjön. I nutid skakas Turkiet och Egypten av en serie attacker mot moskéer. Finns ett samband mellan dessa händelser?

På havsbottnen i det iskalla vattnet utanför ön Nantucket på USA:s östkust ligger vraket av det italienska lyxfartyget Andrea Doria. Men vad få känner till är att skeppet gömmer en ovärderlig artefakt från förcolumbisk tid - en skatt som utgör nyckeln till en gåta som kostat många människoliv.