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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 16
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English
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Pitt's NUMA survey ship happens to be in the vicinity when the world's newest and biggest cruise ship founders and sinks, giving Pitt the chance to stage the daring rescue of nearly 2,000 passengers. Among those who perish is a famous scientist whose revolutionary engines powered the ship to her watery grave; while Pitt is unable to save Dr. Egan, he rescues his beautiful daughter Kelly from the sea, and later from a murder attempt aboard the rescue...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 23
Language
English
Description
While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous — a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt’s children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure. The problem is,...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 24
Language
English
Description
Pitt, the director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is on the Black Sea, helping to locate a lost Ottoman shipwreck, when he responds to an urgent Mayday -- "under attack!" -- from a nearby freighter. But when he and his colleague, Al Giordino, arrive, there is nobody there. Just dead bodies, a smell of sulfur in the air, and, as Pitt and Giordino explore, a blast from the stern that scuttles the ship swiftly, almost taking them with...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 22
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English
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It is the greatest advance in American defense technology in decades -- an attack submarine capable of incredible underwater speeds. Nothing else in any other nation's naval arsenal even comes close. There is only one problem: A key element of the prototype is missing -- and the man who developed it is dead. At the same time, ships have started vanishing mid-ocean, usually never to be found again, but when they are, sometimes bodies are found aboard...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 22
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 thereś a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Japanese submarines carrying biological weapons, headed for the West coast of the U.S. at the end of World War II, never make their target. But someone knows where they are, and it is up to the Pitts to stop them.
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
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Dirk Pitt races to save the future of the world when he is assigned by the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency to find the link between the 1858 discovery of an aged wreck full of crates of antiquities, and two modern-day incidents that claimed the lives of a team of anthropologists and almost sank a NUMA vessel.
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 2
Language
English
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Dirk Pitt responds to a call of distress and finds himself coping with a modern Greek goddess in a red bikini, a vast drug-smuggling ring, a still-active Nazi criminal, and a perilous undersea labyrinth.
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Series
Dirk Pitt volume 8
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
475 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the gulf stream waters to the surface of the moon, swashbuckling hero Dirk Pitt is up against an earth-shattering conspiracy.
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together? NUMA director Dirk Pitt is about to find out, as Roman artifacts discovered in Turkey and Israel unnervingly connect to the rise of a fundamentalist movement...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 4
Language
English
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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.
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
℗♭1984
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A deadly tide of poison flows into ocean waters, a ghost ship drifts across the empty northern Pacific, and the President's yacht disappears without a trace.
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 5
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1978
Physical Desc
286 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
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Series
Dirk Pitt volume 13
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
537 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a mysterious disaster that kills thousands of marine animals and nearly two hundred cruise ship passengers, Dirk Pitt rescues Maeve Fletcher and traces the incident to her father and sisters.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Clive Cussler, "The Grand Master of Adventure," sends his intrepid heroes Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino on their wildest, boldest mission into the ancient world, unlocking extraordinary secrets and solving hideous crimes. Another fabulous read from the mostbeloved series from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. An attack...
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Underwater adventurer Dirk Pitt and the NUMA crew investigate a black tide infesting the ocean off Nicaragua, a study complicated by the discovery of a mysterious artifact, a powerful storm, and a conspiracy.
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Series
Dirk Pitt volume 27
Language
English
Description
"Dirk Pitt returns in the latest novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling series created by the 'grand master of adventure' Clive Cussler"--
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 14
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
511 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dirk Pitt faces one of his most formidable foes--a madman bent on killing hundreds of innocent men, women, and children with a catastrophic surge of mass destruction.
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 11
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
541 p. : 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1995, c1975
Physical Desc
252 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A huge iceberg adrift in the Atlantic is a floating tomb. Embedded in its mass is a ship, completely sealed in. For Major Dirk Pitt, top troubleshooter for the National Underwater and Marine Agency, its the first link in a chain of events which will lead him too close, too often to violent death.
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