Dirk Pitt Adventure Books In Order
- Black Wind (2004)
- The Treasure of Khan (2006)
- Arctic Drift (2008)
- Crescent Dawn (2010)
- Poseidon’s Arrow (2012)
- Havana Storm (2014)
- Odessa Sea (2016)
- Celtic Empire (2019)
- The Devil’s Sea (2021)
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Black Wind
Black Wind continued Dirk Pitt’s meteoric career with one of Clive Cussler’s most audacious, and well received, novels yet: ‘Black Wind more than maintains the supercharged Cusslerian danger’ Kirkus Reviews. ‘Thriller fans will revel in this action packed yarn’ Publishers Weekly. But now Cussler takes an extraordinary leap, with one of his most remarkable villains ever. Genghis Khan the greatest conqueror of all time, who, at his peak, ruled an empire that stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. His conquests are the stuff of legend, his tomb a forgotten mystery. Until now. When Dirk Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russia’s Lake Baikal, it appears a simple act of nature. When the survey team is abducted and Pitt’s research vessel nearly sunk, however, it’s obvious there’s something more sinister involved. All trails lead to Mongolia, and a mysterious mogul who is conducting covert deals for supplying oil to the Chinese while wreaking havoc on global oil markets utilizing a secret technology. The Mongolian harbors a dream of restoring the conquests of his ancestors, and holds a dark secret about Genghis Khan that just might give him the wealth and power to make that dream come true. From the frigid lakes of Siberia to the hot sands of the Gobi Desert, Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino find intrigue, adventure, and peril while collecting clues to the mysterious treasure of Xanadu. But first, they must keep the tycoon from murder and the unleashing of a natural disaster of calamitous proportions. Filled with breathtaking suspense and brilliant imagination, his new novel is yet further proof that when it comes to adventure writing, nobody beats Clive Cussler.
The Treasure of Khan
Black Wind continued Dirk Pitt’s meteoric career with one of Clive Cussler’s most audacious, and well received, novels yet: ‘Black Wind more than maintains the supercharged Cusslerian danger’ Kirkus Reviews. ‘Thriller fans will revel in this action packed yarn’ Publishers Weekly. But now Cussler takes an extraordinary leap, with one of his most remarkable villains ever. Genghis Khan the greatest conqueror of all time, who, at his peak, ruled an empire that stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. His conquests are the stuff of legend, his tomb a forgotten mystery. Until now. When Dirk Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russia’s Lake Baikal, it appears a simple act of nature. When the survey team is abducted and Pitt’s research vessel nearly sunk, however, it’s obvious there’s something more sinister involved. All trails lead to Mongolia, and a mysterious mogul who is conducting covert deals for supplying oil to the Chinese while wreaking havoc on global oil markets utilizing a secret technology. The Mongolian harbors a dream of restoring the conquests of his ancestors, and holds a dark secret about Genghis Khan that just might give him the wealth and power to make that dream come true. From the frigid lakes of Siberia to the hot sands of the Gobi Desert, Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino find intrigue, adventure, and peril while collecting clues to the mysterious treasure of Xanadu. But first, they must keep the tycoon from murder and the unleashing of a natural disaster of calamitous proportions. Filled with breathtaking suspense and brilliant imagination, his new novel is yet further proof that when it comes to adventure writing, nobody beats Clive Cussler.
Arctic Drift
As with all Clive Cussler’s dazzling Dirk Pitt novels, critics said Treasure of Khan amazes, informs and entertains Publishers Weekly, the action zipping along until a final powerhouse showdown Entertainment Weekly. What s not to like? proclaimed the Los Angeles Times and hundreds of thousands of readers agreed. In his new novel, however the twentieth Dirk Pitt adventure Cussler may have topped even himself. 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 there s a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to find it before events escalate out of control. Their only real clue might just be a mysterious silvery mineral traced to a long ago expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. But no one survived from that doomed mission, captain and crew perished to a man and if Pitt and his colleague Al Giordino aren t careful, the very same fate may await them. Filled with the breathtaking suspense and audacious imagination that have become his hallmarks, this is a tour de force further proof that when it comes to adventure writing, nobody beats Clive Cussler.
Crescent Dawn
Dirk Pitt returns in the extraordinary new novel from the 1 New York Times bestselling author. 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 determined to restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire, and to the existence of a mysterious ‘manifest,’ lost long ago, which if discovered again…
just may change the history of the world as we know it.
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