Clive Cussler
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"In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea more than sixty years later, new clues emerge to its hidden existence. But Pitt and his compatriot Al Giordino have larger worries when they are ordered to recover a failed hypersonic missile from the...
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Dirk Pitt volume 11
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2009.
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English
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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.
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2019.
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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 worlds' most advanced fuel-cell systems. But is she an environmental...
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2017.
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"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...
127) Hellburner
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Oregon files volume 16
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"Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must track down a nuclear torpedo before it unleashes World War III in this electrifying new installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling series." --
128) Fire strike
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Oregon files volume 17
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"Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must battle an army of genetically engineered mercenaries to stop a hypersonic missile attack in this explosive new adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to unleash a deadly assault on U.S. forces, sparking a new war in the Middle East and ultimately...
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Dirk Pitt volume 14
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2010.
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The coin of the realm for the wealthy, insatiably greedy Chinese smuggler who is Dirk Pitt's adversary in Flood Tide is human lives: much of his vast fortune has been made smuggling Chinese immigrants into countries around the globe, including the United States. Tracking the smuggler's nefarious activities leads Pitt from Washington State to Louisiana, where his quarry is mysteriously constructing a huge shipping port in the middle of nowhere. Why...
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2019.
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An alarming rise in the world's sea levels--much larger than could be accounted for by glacier melt--sends Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA scientific team rocketing around the globe in search of answers. What they find at the bottom of the East China Sea, however, is even worse than they imagined: a diabolical plan to upset the Pacific balance of power--and in the process displace as many as a billion people. From the shark-filled...
131) Misión Atlántida
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2001.
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Septiembre de 1858: Un ballenero antártico tropieza con los despojos de un antiguo barco zozobrado, cuya tripulación congelada custodia arcones de extrañas antigüedades y un cráneo tallado en obsidiana negra. Marzo de 2001: Un equipo de antropólogos contempla asombrado un muro de raras inscripciones, momentos antes de que una explosión los deje encerrados en lo profundo de las rocas de Colorado. Abril de 2001: Un barco de investigaciones capitaneado...
132) The sea wolves
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[2022]
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As New England swelters in the summer of 1914, Detective Isaac Bell is asked to investigate a cache of missing rifles -- only to discover something much more sinister involving a transistor radio set to summon German U-Boats.
133) The Solomon curse #7
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[2015]
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There are many rumors about the bay off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Some say it was the site of the lost empire of the Solomon king and that great treasure lies beneath the waters. Others say terrible things happened here, atrocities and disappearances at the hands of cannibal giants, and those who venture there do not return. It is cursed. Which is exactly what attracts the attention of husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi...
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2013.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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"In the middle of the Indian Ocean, a NUMA research vessel is taking water samples at sunset, when a crew member spots the familiar sheen of black oil ahead of them. But the substance is not oil. Like a horde of army ants, a swarm of black particles from the spoiled sea suddenly attacks, killing everyone aboard while the ship goes up in flames. A few hours later, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are on their way to the Indian Ocean. What they find on the...
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Isaac Bell novels volume 13
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[2023]
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"Detective Isaac Bell battles foreign spies, German U-boats, and an old nemesis to capture a secret technology that could alter the outcome of World War I in the latest adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler"--
136) El ladrón
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2015.
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"1910. Clyde Lynds, inventor de una nueva y revolucionaria má́quina de cine sonoro, se dirige a Estados Unidos a bordo del Mauretania, el transatlántico más veloz del mundo. En plena travesía Lynds descubre que no ha conseguido librarse de sus perseguidores alemanes, que intentarán secuestrarlo en mitad del océano. Pero no cuentan con que Isaac Bell, el famoso jefe de la agencia de detectives Van Dorn, navega en el mismo barco. No obstante,...
138) El mar del silencio
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2012.
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Cabrillo, chasing the remnants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, stumbles upon a shocking revelation that leads him in search of an ancient Chinese expedition--and a curse that seems to have survived for more than five hundred years.
"Diciembre de 1941. Cinco hermanos descubren algo prodigioso en una pequeą cuerva de una isla situada cerca de la costa del estado de Washington. Sin embargo, la noticia del ataque a Pearl Harbor impede...