Books by Clive Cussler and Complete Book Reviews

Clive Cussler, Author . Putnam $27.95 (485p) ISBN 978-0-399-15080-7
Adventure tales for boys (and girls) of all ages have no more vigorous champion today than Cussler, who has kept the spirit of Joe and Frank Hardy alive, albeit on a grander scale, in numerous bestsellers. This 17th Dirk Pitt extravaganza finds...
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Clive Cussler, Author . Putnam $26.95 (404p) ISBN 978-0-399-15438-6
Cussler takes a breather from his several ongoing series with this historical thriller set in the western states, circa 1906. The U.S. government hires the renowned Van Dorn Detective Agency and its equally renowned lead agent, Isaac Bell, to...
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Clive Cussler, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (544p) ISBN 978-0-671-68155-5
Cussler's ( Raise the Titanic ) durable hero Dirk Pitt returns with Al Giordino, his amiable hulk of a sidekick, to save mankind from a greedy industrialist in cahoots with a despot and to solve a few historical riddles along the way. Dirk meets...
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Clive Cussler, Author Simon & Schuster $23.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68156-2
A chance rescue of two divers trapped in a Peruvian sinkhole leads series hero Dirk Pitt ( Raise the Titanic! ; Deep Six ) into a search for lost treasure that involves grave robbers, art thieves and ancient curses. Cussler's latest adventure novel...
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Clive Cussler, Author Simon & Schuster $24.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-80297-8
Dirk Pitt (Inca Gold), eco-warrior of the National Underwater & Marine Agency (NUMA), returns for another boys' adventure tale, this one set in the year 2000. Along for the sail are Pitt's roly-poly sidekick, Al Giordino, and father-figure Admiral...
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Clive Cussler, Author Simon & Schuster $26 (512p) ISBN 978-0-684-80298-5
Fresh from battling an evil diamond merchant in Shock Wave, Dirk Pitt, Cussler's perennial hero, and his sidekick, Al Giordino, are out to catch a Chinese shipping magnate who smuggles illegal Chinese immigrants into countries around the world to be
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Clive Cussler, Author Putnam $26.95 (534p) ISBN 978-0-399-14588-9
Dirk Pitt, Cussler's larger-than-life hero, butts heads with an army of elite killers seeking to destroy the world in another wickedly engrossing yet predictably scripted tale of bravery against all odds. As the story begins, artifacts from a...
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Clive Cussler, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-50374-1
Written in the bestselling style of Pacific Vortex! and Deep Six, and with the indestructible Dirk Pitt as its hero, this latest Cussler suspense caper features, and ingeniously connects, a maverick American colony on the Moon, a fabulous sunken...
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Clive Cussler, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-62613-6
When the great Library of Alexandria was ordered sacked in A.D. 391, could some of its fabulous art treasures and volumes from its magnificent library have escaped the flames and been ferried across the Atlantic? It's an improbable if intriguing...
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Clive Cussler, Author Simon & Schuster $21.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-62619-8
Dirk Pitt returns for his ninth and most improbable adventure as Cussler ( Treasure ) offers a page-turning romp that achieves a level of fast-paced action and derring-do that Robert Ludlum and other practitioners of modern pulp fiction might well...
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Clive and Dirk Cussler. Putnam, $29 (496p) ISBN 978-0-399-57551-8
On the Black Sea, the setting for bestseller Cussler’s intricately plotted 24th Dirk Pitt adventure, the seventh coauthored with son Dirk (after 2014’s Havana Storm), a Russian freighter has encountered a deadly mystery that has killed almost...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Craig Dirgo, With Simon & Schuster $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-684-83027-8
Bestselling novelist Cussler (Shock Wave) and Dirgo are both members of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, a group financed principally by the income from Cussler's books and dedicated to finding famous marine wrecks. Not treasure hunters,...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Craig Dirgo, With, Paul Kemprecos, Joint Author Pocket Books $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-671-00180-3
The novelist recounts his 12 most remarkable underwater shipwreck discoveries. (Aug.)
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Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood. Putnam, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-15742-4
In Cussler and Blackwood's rousing third adventure featuring treasure hunters extraordinaire Sam and Remi Fargo (after Lost Empire), the couple get on the trail of a sacred object, the Theurang, "said to have been a life-sized statue of a man-like...
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Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood, Putnam, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-15676-2
Cussler and Blackwood's second adventure to feature husband-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo deviates little from the familiar formula of the first in the series, Spartan Gold. When Sam and Remi find a huge ship's bell on a dive off the...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Justin Scott, Author . Putnam $27.95 (470p) ISBN 978-0-399-15599-4
Set in 1907, the rousing second thriller to feature detective Isaac Bell (after The Chase ) from bestseller Cussler and Scott pits Bell against “the Wrecker,” who's been destroying trains and railroad facilities around the country...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Justin Scott, Author . Putnam $27.95 (436p) ISBN 978-0-399-15643-4
Set in 1908, bestseller Cussler and Scott's action-packed third adventure featuring Isaac Bell, head operative of the Van Dorn Detective Agency, leaves behind the railroad theme of the first two books (The Chase and The Wrecker ), focusing...
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Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. Putnam, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-15781-3
Set in 1909, bestseller Cussler and Scott's nifty fourth adventure thriller starring Isaac Bell, ace detective with the Van Dorn Detective Agency (the company motto: "We never give up. Never"), focuses on airplanes. The previous three outings...
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Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. Putnam, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-16177-3
Bestseller Cussler and Scott explore the origins of their series hero in the exciting sixth Isaac Bell adventure (after 2012’s The Thief). In 1902, Bell’s employer, the Van Dorn Agency, dispatches the private detective to West Virginia, where he’s...
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Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. Putnam, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-16729-4
The Prohibition era provides the backdrop for bestseller Cussler’s spirited seventh Isaac Bell adventure (after 2013’s The Striker, also coauthored with Scott), in which Comintern agents scheme to take over America. Soviet operator Marat Zolner has...
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Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. Putnam, $28.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-17175-8
Isaac Bell locks horns with John D. Rockefeller in bestseller Cussler’s uneven eighth adventure featuring the Van Dorn Agency detective (after 2014’s The Bootlegger, also coauthored with Scott). In 1905, Rockefeller is buying up all the independent...
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Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. Putnam, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-17595-4
Set in 1906, bestseller Cussler’s thrilling ninth Isaac Bell adventure (after 2015’s The Assassin, also coauthored with Scott) pits Bell, an operative in the Van Dorn Detective Agency, against Antonio Branco, who’s outwardly a respectable New York...
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Clive Cussler and Justin Scott, read by Scott Brick. Penguin Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 12 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-1-61176-017-0
With aviation in its infancy, a newspaperman is sponsoring a cross-country competition featuring flying machines and a hefty prize. But when someone ends up dead and the husband of one of the racers is implicated, chief investigator Isaac Bell of...
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Clive Cussler and Justin Scott, read by Scott Brick. Penguin Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 10 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-1-61176-058-3
Scott Brick delivers straightforward narration in the audio edition of this latest thriller from Cussler and Scott that follows the adventures of detective Isaac Bell during the early 20th century. This time around, Bell is aboard the British ocean...
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Clive Cussler and Graham Brown. Putnam, $28.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-399-16731-7
Bestseller Cussler’s electrifying 12th NUMA Files adventure (after 2013’s Zero Hour, also coauthored by Brown) takes Kurt Austin, director of special projects at the National Underwater Marine Agency, across the globe in search of Sienna Westgate,...
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Clive Cussler and Russell Blake. Putnam, $28.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-16730-0
Bestseller Cussler recycles plots and villains from earlier books in the sixth Fargo novel (after 2013’s Mayan Secrets), his first with coauthor Blake (Jet). In Spain, treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo run afoul of an old adversary, the thief...
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Clive Cussler and Russell Blake. Putnam, $28.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-17432-2
Bestseller Cussler’s perfunctory seventh Sam and Remi Fargo adventure (after 2014’s The Eye of Heaven), his second with coauthor Blake, takes the husband-wife treasure hunters to Guadalcanal, where in 1170 C.E. a royal residence built on islets in...
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Clive Cussler and Graham Brown. Putnam, $28.95 (422p) ISBN 978-0-399-17411-7
In bestseller Cussler's 13th NUMA Files novel (after 2014's Ghost Ship, also coauthored with Brown), it's business as usual for Kurt Austin of the National Underwater and Marine Agency as he and his cohorts battle modern-day mad men armed with an...
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Clive Cussler and Graham Brown. Putnam, $29 (464p) ISBN 978-0-399-18401-7
Kurt Austin of the National Underwater and Marine Agency has to track down an unmanned experimental aircraft, the Nighthawk, in bestseller Cussler’s exciting 14th NUMA Files novel (after 2015’s The Pharaoh’s Secret, also coauthored with Brown). The...
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Clive Cussler and Graham Brown. Putnam, $29 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1553-5
Indefatigable bestseller Cussler shows no sign of flagging in his 15th NUMA Files novel (after 2017’s Nighthawk, also coauthored with Brown), an adventurous mix of archetypal mysterious substances, futuristic technology, ancient legends, and global...
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Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. Putnam, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-57560-0
An intriguing premise—Jack the Ripper is alive and well and rampaging across early-20th-century America—boosts bestseller Cussler’s 10th Isaac Bell adventure (after 2016’s The Gangster, also coauthored with Scott). Wealthy industrialist William Pape
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Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison. Putnam, $29 (448p) ISBN 978-0-399-57557-0
Bestseller Cussler’s fast-paced 12th Oregon Files novel (after 2016’s The Emperor’s Revenge, also coauthored with Morrison) opens in the midst of the second battle of Corregidor in 1945. During a U.S. attack on one of the mountainous island’s many...
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Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison. Putnam, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1906-9
Bestseller Cussler’s solid if overly familiar 13th Oregon novel (after 2017’s Typhoon Fury, also with Morrison) pits Juan Cabrillo, chairman of the Corporation, a private organization that undertakes difficult missions for the CIA, against a secret...
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Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison, read by Scott Brick. Penguin Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-525-49730-1
Veteran actor Brick’s dramatic rendition of book 12 in Cussler’s Oregon Files series enhances the nonstop action on board Capt. Juan Cabrillo’s camouflaged vessel, the Oregon. The book, which opens in the battle of Corregidor in 1945, features a...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Dirk Cussler, Author . Putnam $27.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-399-15259-7
A starred review indicates a book of outstanding quality. A review with a blue-tinted title indicates a book of unusual commercial interest that hasn't received a starred review. BLACK WIND Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler . Putnam , $27.95 (544p
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Clive Cussler, Author, Dirk Cussler, Author . Putnam $27.95 (552p) ISBN 978-0-399-15369-3
Dirk Pitt's 19th adventure, the second collaboration between father and son Clive and Dirk Cussler (after 2004's Black Wind ), offers a plot as credible as it is monstrous and the kind of exotic aquatic detail that amazes, informs and...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Dirk Cussler, Author . Putnam $27.95 (515p) ISBN 978-0-399-15529-1
Bestseller Cussler and son Dirk imagine the U.S. and Canada on the brink of war in their third collaborative Dirk Pitt novel (after Treasure of Khan and Black Wind ). In 2011, as the price of gas hits $10 a gallon, President Garner Ward must...
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Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler, Putnam, $27.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-399-15714-1
In the bloated fourth Dirk Pitt novel from Cussler and son Dirk (after Arctic Drift), evildoers Ozden Aktan Celik and Ozden's sister, Maria, who are bent on Muslim domination of the Middle East, plot to blow up sacred Muslim sites like Jerusalem's...
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Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler. Putnam, $28.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-399-16292-3
The fifth Dirk Pitt novel from bestseller Cussler and son Dirk (after 2010’s Crescent Dawn) features expanded roles for Pitt’s two grown kids. Both Summer and Dirk Jr. help their dad try to corral ruthless Austrian entrepreneur Edward Bolcke, who...
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Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler. Putnam, $28.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-399-17292-2
After 40 years of nautical derring-do, Dirk Pitt is still going strong, as shown in bestseller Cussler’s winning 23rd novel featuring the underwater expert, the sixth coauthored with son Dirk (after 2012’s Poseidon’s Arrow). In 1898, Ellsworth Boyd,
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Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler. Putnam, $29 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1899-4
In bestseller Cussler and son Dirk’s rousing 25th Dirk Pitt adventure (after 2016’s Odessa Sea), a series of maritime disasters catch the attention of Pitt and other members of the National Underwater and Marine Agency. Where these attacks have...
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Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood, read by Scott Brick, Penguin Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-0-14-242848-1
While scuba-diving on the Tanzania coast, Sam and Remi Fargo find a U.S. Civil War ship's bell engraved with Aztec hieroglyphs. Recovering it and discovering its provenance becomes irresistible—especially when they realize someone is desperate to...
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Clive Cussler and Grant Blackwood, read by Scott Brick. Penguin Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-0-14-242935-8
Husband-and-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are back for another action-packed adventure in this third book in the Fargo Adventure series from Cussler and Blackwood. An eccentric Texas billionaire brings the couple to Nepal and the...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Scott Brick, Read by, Paul Kemprecos, With with Paul Kemprecos, read by Scott Brick. Penguin Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-314454-0
In the eighth Kurt Austin adventure, a lethal flu virus emerges in China, and the Chinese and American governments join together to search for a vaccine to prevent a global pandemic. Research suggests the sea holds the cure, but when the vital deep...
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Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell. Putnam, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-18397-3
All the familiar elements are in place in bestseller Cussler’s eighth Sam and Remi Fargo adventure (after 2015’s Solomon’s Curse), coauthored with Burcell: a king’s treasure lost in the mists of time; an ancient book that hints at the location of...
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Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell. Putnam, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-57554-9
The focus of bestseller Cussler’s tepid ninth Sam and Remi Fargo adventure (after 2016’s Pirate, also coauthored with Burcell) is the Romanov ransom, treasures collected by the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna in 1918 in a doomed effort to buy the...
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Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell. Putnam, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1873-4
Bestsellers Cussler and Burcell’s refreshing 10th Sam and Remi Fargo adventure (after 2017’s The Romanov Ransom) benefits from a clever flashback device. In 1906, Isaac Bell, the hero of the Cussler series featuring the men and women of the Van Dorn
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Clive Cussler and Graham Brown. Putnam, $27.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-399-15782-0
Sierra Leone’s ambitious dictator, Djemma Garand, has coerced Alexander Cochrane into constructing “a directed-energy weapon of incredible power,” which can cook people from the inside out in the action-packed ninth Kurt Austin adventure (after 2009’
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Clive Cussler and Graham Brown, read by Scott Brick. Penguin Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12.5 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-1-61176-018-7
When Kurt Austin and his NUMA (National Underwater Maritime Agency) Special Operations Team investigate a burning Japanese cargo ship, they find themselves locked in a deadly confrontation with a gang of bloodthirsty pirates intent on plundering the
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Clive Cussler and Graham Brown. Putnam, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-16013-4
Global climate change poses a threat in bestseller Cussler’s exciting 10th thriller featuring Kurt Austin and the gang from the National Underwater and Marine Agency (after 2011’s Devil’s Gate, also coauthored with Brown). When everyone aboard a...
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Clive Cussler and Graham Brown. Putnam, $28.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-16250-3
Kurt Austin and best pal Joe Zavala, those grown-up Hardy Boys, contend with Maxmillian Thero, a hideously disfigured mad scientist, in Cussler's action-packed, fun-filled 11th NUMA Files adventure (after 2012's The Storm, also coauthored with Brown)
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Clive Cussler and Graham Brown, read by Scott Brick. Penguin Audio, nine CDs, 10.75 hrs., unabridged, $39.95 ISBN 978-1-61176-168-9
This latest NUMA adventure from Cussler and Brown features the heroic members of the National Underwater and Marine Agency—Kurt Austin, Dirk Pitt, Joe Zavala, et al.—battling yet another madman who hopes to conquer the world. But crazed scientist...
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Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison. Putnam, $28.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-16732-4
Bestseller Cussler scores a direct hit in the 10th Oregon Files novel (after 2013’s Mirage), coauthored with Morrison (The Ark). Juan Cabrillo, the captain of the Oregon, a tramp steamer that hides beneath its patina of rust a state-of-the-art...
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Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison. Putnam, $29 (464p) ISBN 978-0-399-17596-1
A high level of tolerance for implausibility is required to enjoy bestseller Cussler's high-octane 11th Oregon Files adventure (after 2015's Piranha), the second in the series to be coauthored by Morrison. Juan Cabrillo runs the Corporation, an off-t
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Clive Cussler, Author, Jack B. Du Brul, Author with Jack Du Brul. Putnam $26.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-399-15497-3
In the dependably entertaining if less than top-notch fifth Oregon Files thriller from bestseller Cussler and Du Brul (after Skeleton Crew ), Capt. Juan Cabrillo, who heads the Corporation, a covert military company for hire, and the multifaceted...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Jack B. Du Brul, Author with Jack Du Brul. Putnam $27.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-399-15539-0
Subduing a band of Somali pirates is just the warmup for Juan Cabrillo and the valiant crew of the supership Oregon in the rousing sixth Oregon Files thriller from bestseller Cussler and Du Brul (after Plague Ship ). Cabrillo’s main mission...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Jack B. Du Brul, Author Putnam $27.95 (403p) ISBN 978-0-399-15625-0
In the winning seventh entry in the Oregon Files nautical adventure series from bestseller Cussler and Du Brul (after Corsair ), Juan Cabrillo, the heroic skipper of the Oregon , a state-of-the-art warship disguised as a tramp steamer, faces a...
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Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul, Putnam, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-15704-2
Juan Cabrillo and his crew of mercenaries engage in one daring rescue operation after another with progressively higher stakes in Cussler's high-octane eighth Oregon Files novel (after The Silent Sea), his sixth collaboration with Du Brul. The...
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Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul. Putnam, $28.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-15808-7
In this rousing ninth Oregon Files adventure (after 2011’s The Jungle) from bestseller Cussler and Du Brul, series hero Juan Cabrillo’s attempt to rescue old pal Yuri Borodin from a super-max Siberian prison goes bad. Yuri dies after uttering “Tesla,
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Clive Cussler, Author, Jack B. Du Brul, Author, Scott Brick, Read by with Jack Du Brul, read by Scott Brick. Penguin Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-314308-6
Cussler, writing with Du Brul, offers the fifth installment of his Oregon series, which follows the exploits of a covert ship that does the government's dirty work as long as the price is right. Scott Brick reads with a flare of the theatrical,
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Clive Cussler, Author, Jack B. Du Brul, Author, Scott Brick, Read by with Jack Du Brul, read by Scott Brick. Penguin $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-314415-1
When a plane carrying the U.S. secretary of state, en route to a Middle East peace conference, disappears over Libya, the techno-wizards aboard the supership Oregon try to track it down and recover any survivors. Juan Cabrillo and his crew discover
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Clive Cussler, Author, Jack B. Du Brul, Author, Jason Culp, Read by with Jack Du Brul, read by Jason Culp. Penguin Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-314309-3
Two different narrators tackle abridged and unabridged versions of Plague Ship —with strikingly different results. Plague Ship Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul, read by Jason Culp. Penguin Audio , abridged, five CDs, 6.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-0
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Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul, read by Jason Culp. Penguin Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-0-14-242890-0
The crew of the Oregon is engaged for a rescue mission that takes them deep into the Burmese jungle where the natural perils are hardly more deadly than the manmade ones. Their quest for the missing daughter of a Swiss billionaire, takes them all...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Paul McCarthy, Editor Pocket Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-86731-7
With this 14-week PW bestseller in cloth, Cussler delivers great fun, as his durable hero Dirk Pitt returns to save mankind from a greedy industrialist, solving some historical riddles along the way. (July)
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Clive Cussler, Author, Paul Kemprecos, With . Putnam, $27.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-399-14787-6
The master of action/adventure fiction strikes oil with this nonstop thriller, which tangles ancient Viking runes, Captain Nemo's Nautilus, the Red Baron, water propulsion engines, murderous oil magnates, undersea catastrophes and cruise ship...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Paul Kemprecos, With with Paul Kemprecos. Putnam $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-14872-9
This newest addition to the Kurt Austin series (after Blue Gold) has the men from NUMA (Native Underwater & Marine Agency) team up with former KGB spies to face down a Russian mobster with czarist aspirations and a zealot's hatred for the 
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Clive Cussler, Author, Paul Kemprecos, With with Paul Kemprecos. Putnam $26.95 (420p) ISBN 978-0-399-15177-4
Kurt Austin, leader of the National Underwater and Marine Agency's Special Assignments Team, battles international evildoers again in the fifth installment of this excellent series. There are several parallel plots: a mysterious aviator has...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Paul Kemprecos, With with Paul Kemprecos. Putnam $26.95 (437p) ISBN 978-0-399-15419-5
Fans of action-hero Kurt Austin of the National Underwater and Maritime Agency expect imaginative plotting, but it never comes down the chute in this seventh NUMA Files novel from bestseller Cussler and Shamus-winner Kemprecos (after Polar Shift )....
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Clive Cussler, Author, Paul Kemprecos, With with Paul Kemprecos. Putnam $27.95 (454p) ISBN 978-0-399-15565-9
In the prologue to the winning eighth Kurt Austin adventure from bestseller Cussler and Shamus-winner Kemprecos (after The Navigator ), 18-year-old Caleb Nye, a farm boy on his first sea voyage in 1848, finds himself a modern-day Jonah after being...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Paul Kemprecos, With Pocket Books $18 (480p) ISBN 978-0-671-02670-7
After more than a quarter century of chronicling the aquatic adventures of action hero Dirt Pitt, Cussler (Flood Tide; Shock Wave) has finally decided to cast his line in somewhat different waters. Co-written by veteran mystery author Paul Kemprecos
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Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry. Putnam, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15926-8
Sam and Remi Fargo, multimillionaire treasure hunters, prove they can wield automatic weapons as well as they can metal detectors in the fun fourth Fargo novel (after 2011’s The Kingdom) from bestseller Cussler and new collaborator Perry. A German...
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Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry. Putnam, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-16249-7
Early in bestseller Cussler’s engaging fifth Fargo novel, this one like 2012’s The Tombs with coauthor Perry, intrepid Sam and Remi Fargo, who have been tagging Great White sharks off the west coast of Mexico, volunteer their services after an...
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Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry, read by Scott Brick. Penguin Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 10 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-1-61176-200-6
Scott Brick settles easily into his narration of this Cussler/Perry collaboration, starring the Nick and Nora Charles of action and adventure: Sam and Remi Fargo. Rushing to help the victims of an earthquake in rural Mexico, the Fargos stumble...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Bill Farnsworth, Illustrator , illus. by William Farnsworth. Philomel $15.99 (167p) ISBN 978-0-399-24474-2
Bestselling adult author Cussler meshes fantasy and adventure in this lighthearted tale, which opens on a California farm. After an itinerant farmhand arrives to help the Nicefolk family with the harvest, twin 10-year-old siblings Casey and Lacey...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Craig Dirgo, Author . Berkley $15 (416p) ISBN 978-0-425-19848-3
Eric the Red's A.D. 1000 discovery of a radioactive meteorite has present-day life-or-death ramifications in Cussler and Dirgo's second novel (after Golden Buddha ) featuring the Oregon , a state-of-the-art warship disguised as a rusty tramp
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Clive Cussler, Author, Paul Kemprecos, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (542p) ISBN 978-0-671-74276-8
In this Japan-bashing adventure, Cussler's ninth book to feature Dirk Pitt, Japanese nationalists plant nuclear devices in international cities as they plot to create a new empire through blackmail. ``A page-turning romp that achieves a level of...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Paul Kemprecos, Author Pocket Books $7.99 (592p) ISBN 978-0-671-00030-1
The latest Dirk Pitt adventure pits him against an evil diamond tycoon. (Dec.)
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Clive Cussler, Author, Paul Kemprecos, Author, Paul Kemprecos, Joint Author with Paul Kemprecos. Putnam $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-15041-8
Cussler's multitude of fans arrive at the table expecting a roiling stew of seafaring adventure, exotic travel destinations, cutting-edge science, a splash of romance and insider tips on food and drink. In this latest starring series hero Kurt...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Craig Dirgo, Joint Author . Putnam $27.95 (446p) ISBN 978-0-399-14925-2
Well known for his series of action adventure novels starring Dirk Pitt, Cussler is also the founder of the nonprofit National Underwater and Marine Agency, a group that searches for shipwrecks of historical significance. The group does not salvage...
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Clive Cussler, Author, Craig Dirgo, Joint Author . Berkley $15 (432p) ISBN 978-0-425-19172-9
Cussler and Dirgo, coauthors of two nonfiction books (The Sea Hunters; The Sea Hunters II) team up this time to debut a new action-filled series, dubbed the Oregon Files, equal to any in the Cussler franchise. An organization of intelligent and...
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Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul. Putnam, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1726-3
In the prologue of the engrossing 11th Isaac Bell adventure from bestseller Cussler and Du Brul (after 2017’s The Cutthroat), a lawyer from a firm possessing a secret report written decades earlier by detective Isaac Bell gives the report to Dirk...
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Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul. Putnam, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-19122-4
It’s 1914, and bestseller Cussler’s top-notch 12th Isaac Bell adventure (after 2019’s The Titanic Secret, also coauthored with Du Brul) finds detective Bell and his wife, Marion, in Panama after foiling an attempt on the life of a U.S. senator in...
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Clive Cussler and Graham Brown. Putnam, $29 (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-32786-9
In bestseller Cussler’s gripping 18th NUMA Files novel (after 2020’s Journey of the Pharaohs, also with Brown), climate expert Cora Emmerson, while doing research in Berlin, comes across references to a 1939 German expedition to Antarctica that...
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Clive Cussler and Graham Brown. Putnam, $29 (432p) ISBN 978-0-593-08308-6
Bestseller Cussler’s lively 17th NUMA Files novel (after 2018’s Sea of Greed, also with Brown) finds Kurt Austin, the director of special projects for the U.S. government’s National Underwater and Marine Agency, on the coast of Scotland, where he...
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Clive Cussler and Graham Brown. Putnam, $29 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1902-1
Kurt Austin and the other members of the National Underwater Marine Agency must once again save the world in bestseller Cussler’s solid 16th NUMA Files novel (after The Rising Sea, also with Brown). In the present, Tessa Franco, a “wealthy and...
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Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison. Putnam, $29 (384p) ISBN 978-0-593-08791-6
In 2019’s The Final Option, Juan Cabrillo, the captain of the Oregon, was forced to sink his beloved ship in a dire emergency. Now, in the late Cussler’s suspenseful 15th Oregon Files novel, also coauthored with Morrison, Cabrillo, the chairman of...
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Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison. Putnam, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-54181-3
A particularly nasty WWII-era weapon, a “sonic disrupter,” propels the action of bestseller Cussler’s startling 14th novel featuring the Oregon, a state-of-the-art warship designed to look like a tramp steamer (after 2018’s Shadow Tyrants, also with
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Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell. Putnam, $29 (416p) ISBN 978-0-593-08788-6
Early in bestseller Cussler’s posthumous 12th Sam and Remi Fargo adventure (after 2019’s The Oracle, also coauthored with Burcell), an intriguing origin story, treasure hunters Sam and Remi meet with St. Julien Perlmutter, “a world authority on...
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Clive Cussler and Robin Burcell. Putnam, $29 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-53961-2
In the prologue of bestseller Cussler’s exceptional 11th Sam and Remi Fargo adventure (after 2018’s The Gray Ghost, also coauthored with Burcell), Gelimer, the king of the Vandals, consults an oracle in a North African town in 533 C.E. Gelimer must...
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