Showing results by author "Clive Cussler" in Suspense

A call for help from a stricken archaeological expedition brings Dirk Pitt to a sacred well high in the Andes. There he confronts a band of ruthless art thieves, who plunder ancient sites for their precious artefacts. But soon Dirk Pitt faces even graver danger, as he searches for a lost Spanish galleon and hunts for a fabulous hoard of Inca gold. And in a desperate race against time, Pitt must track down a sacred site - before the richest prize known to man is lost to the world forever....

When NUMA scientists discover a startling rise in the Western Pacific sea levels, they fly to Japan in search of answers. Kurt, Joe and the team uncover a secret Chinese mining operation beneath the East China Sea and a diabolical plan to destroy the Japanese-American alliance and unbalance the world's scales of power. To avert an international disaster, Kurt and his team must outwit a powerful, ruthless industrialist, an assassin too violent for the Yakuza and an extraordinary hi-tech threat....

Buried in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Japan, lies one of the greatest drowned secrets of World Wart Two - a crashed B-29 bomber that was carrying a third atomic bomb to Japan in 1945. Its deadly cargo, lost in the sea for nearly 50 years, is at the heart of this classic Dirk Pitt thriller, in which a small group of Japanese nationalist fanatics, dreaming of a new Nipponese Empire, set out to neutralise and blackmail the USA - with nuclear weapons planted strategically in the country's major cities....

It is 1907. Train wrecks, fires and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express line. Desperate, the railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency. Van Dorn sends in its top investigator, Isaac Bell.Bell quickly discovers that a mysterious saboteur haunts the hobo jungles of the West. Known as The Wrecker, he recruits accomplices from among the down-and-outs to attack the railroad, killing them afterwards.

Aboard the liner Mauretania, Isaac Bell, chief investigator at legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency, thwarts a kidnapping. The victims, who have fled Europe carrying a secret invention, fear a foreign power will steal it before they reach America. Bell offers to protect them. Soon Bell is fighting skulduggery in the middle of the Atlantic. Heading for California, the chase is on.

When Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon answer a distress call from a research ship, nothing can prepare them for what they find. A strange and dangerous toxin has left the crew helpless, unable to move or speak. And when a further attack leaves hundreds more paralysed, Juan and his team must race to find an antidote before the damage becomes permanent. Their search for answers leads to a Roman soldier's long-lost testimony, revealing ancient events that strangely parallel their own.

Dirk Pitt battles his most dangerous foe ever - with help from a very unexpected source. There is a black tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua. Whilst trying to determine its origin, startling things begin to occur and the inhabitants of a floating resort find themselves directly in the path of a violent storm. Dirk and the NUMA crew rush to their rescue, but they discover that there is an all-too-human evil at work and the black tide is only a by-product of its plan. Soon its work will be complete - and the world will be a very different place....

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Ghost Ship by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown, read by Scott Brick. When Kurt Austin is injured rescuing souls from a sinking yacht, he wakes with conflicting memories. Did he witness an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? Kurt doesn't trust either version of his recollection.

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?

The new Dirk Pitt adventure from the number one Sunday Times best-selling author. A desperate attempt in 1917 to preserve the wealth and power of the Romanov Empire. A Cold War bomber lost with a deadly cargo. Mysterious deaths on the Black Sea linked to modern-day smugglers of nuclear materials. At the center of it all is Dirk Pitt and his team from NUMA. As the danger escalates, there's only one man who can avert catastrophe.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Assassin by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott, read by Scott Brick. As private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassin kills Bell's best witness.

For the President of the United States, the crisis point is approaching fast. With his new Soviet initiative entering its most crucial phase, the President suddenly finds himself faced with a pollution disaster of potentially cataclysmic proportions. And then - incredibly - he vanishes into thin air, leaving his country poised on the brink of chaos.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Tombs by Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry, read by Scott Brick. It's a prize beyond imagination. When an archaeologist excavating a top-secret historical site realises the magnitude of his discovery, he requests help from treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo. In rushing to join him, the Fargos are thrown into their most daring quest to date.

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.

Tripolibukten 1803: Den ökände piraten Al-Jama hamnar i en blodig batalj och räddas från drunkning av en av sina amerikanska fiender. Drygt 200 år senare: Ett internationellt toppmöte ska hållas i Tripoli. Men en terroristledare, som även han kallar sig Al-Jama, gör allt i sin makt för att sätta käppar i hjulet och kidnappar USA:s utrikesminister. Frågan är vilken terroristledaren Al-Jamas verkliga identitet är. Juan Cabrillo och hans besättning beger sig dit för att lokalisera och befria ministern.

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.