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Dirk Pitt proved invincible in RAISE THE TITANIC! Now, with the future of virtually every person in the world at stake, he is enlisted to spearhead his most daring mission yet - the rescue of a vital document for the United States. To an energy-starved, economically devastated America, possession of this document is worth billions. But to Great Britain, it's worth a war. Pitt's quest plunges him into a head-to-head confrontation with Britain's most cunning secret agent - and into the throes of a torrid love triangle. As time runs out for a desperate America, Dirk Pitt races toward an underwater clash more terrifying than anything Clive Cussler has ever created - the breathtaking climax of Night Probe!
Dirk Pitt's first, most terrific adventure! Dirk Pitt, death-defying adventurer
and deep-sea expert, is out to the ultimate test as he plunges into the perilous waters of
the Pacific Vortex -- a fog-shrouded sea zone where dozens of ships have vanished without
a trace. The latest victim is the awesome superb Starbuck, America's deep-diving nuclear
arsenal. Its loss poses an unthinkable threat to national defense. Pitt's job is to find
it, salvage it, before the sea explodes. In a furious race against time, Pitt's mission
swirls him into a battle with underwater assassins-and traps him in the arms of Summer
Moran, the most stunningly exotic and dangerous toward disaster, Clive Cussler plummets
his hero onto an ancient sunken island-the astonishing setting for the explosive climax of
Pacific Vortex! When adventurer Dirk Pitt locates the the sunken Titanic, he puts himself and
his crew in deadly jeopardy. Sabotaged by Russian spies and savage storms, Pitt must stop
a diabolical plan for Soviet world surpremacy--or see the Titanic blasted out of
existence. With the mastery that has made each of his books a major bestseller, Cussler
ties together the disappearance of a Confederate ironclad in 1865, a British aviatrix who
vanished in 1931, and the 1995 mission of Dirk Pitt to find the remains of a pharaoh's
funeral barge buried at the bottom of the Nile. The result is Pitt's most gripping and
action-packed adventure ever. For the millions of Dirk Pitt fans comes Clive Cussler's first nonfiction book.
With his NUMA foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to the discovery and
preservation of historic shipwrecks, Cussler and his volunteers have discovered more than
60 ships. In Sea Hunters, he has chosen 13 of the most interesting of these finds and, in
gripping detail, describes their lives as working ships, their eventual demise, and their
discovery of photos. In this explosive Dirk Pitt meets the most intriguing and sinister villain of
his adventurous and legendary career--a billionaire Australian diamond king with whom he
must wage conflict above and below the sea for the survival of vast numbers of sea
creatures and more than a million human beings. Only Clive Cussler--the Grandmaster of
Adventure--could have written a story this suspenseful. Cussler's new action-packed novel begins with a mystery and ends with a dramatic
chase in which the future of the world is at stake. After locating an ancient ship, Dirk
sets out to find its treasure. 1954. Vixen 03 is down. The plane, bound for the Pacific carrying
thirty-six Doomsday bombs -- canisters armed with quick-death germs of unbelievable
potency -- vanishes. Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. 1988.
Dirk Pitt, who heroically raised the Titanic, discovers the wreckage of Vixen 03.
But two deadly canisters are missing. They're in the hands of a terrorist group. Their
lethal mission: to sail a battleship seventy-five miles up the Potomac and blast
Washington, D.C., to kingdom come. Only Dirk can stop them.
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