Auf einer Testfahrt verschwindet die Starbuck, das neueste und modernste U-Boot der Welt, spurlos irgendwo im Pazifik. Und das ist keinesfalls ein Einzelfall: Bereits 37 Schiffe sind im Laufe der letzten 30 Jahre in einem kreisrunden Seegebiet nördlich des Hawaii-Archipels in einem "Todesnebel" verschollen. Diesmal droht allerdings höchste Gefahr. Das Arsenal von Atomraketen an Bord der Starbuck darf keiner fremden Macht in die Hände fallen. Die US-Navy betraut Dirk Pitt, den Taucher, Abenteuer und Top-Mann der Meeresbehörde NUMA, mit dem Fall. In einem atemberaubenden Wettlauf mit der Zeit muß er versuchen, eine atomare Katastrophe zu verhindern. Dabei hat er nur eine lächerlich dürftige Chance...

Pacific Vortex (Dirk Pitt)

1800 : alors qu’il traverse les Alpes enneigées avec son armée, Napoléon Bonaparte découvre un trésor fabuleux. Ne pouvant le transporter, et afin de le léguer à ses héritiers, il invente avec l’aide de son plus fidèle officier une énigme qui, une fois résolue, mènera jusqu’à lui. Mais à la mort de l’empereur, les indices soigneusement disséminés disparaissent… De nos jours : explorant les marais du Maryland, Remi et Sam Fargo découvrent, échoué dans un bras mort de la rivière, un sous-marin allemand datant de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. À l’intérieur, une bouteille de vin de la cave perdue de Napoléon. Intrigués par les symboles qui ornent l’étiquette, ils se lancent à la recherche des bouteilles manquantes… De son côté, Hadeon Bondarouk, un millionnaire russe d’origine perse, est lui aussi prêt à tout pour retrouver sur ce mystérieux trésor, qui pourrait bien en cacher un autre…

L'Or de Sparte (Fargo Adventure, #1)

The dazzling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series from the grand master of adventure. When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicted memories. Did he see an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain, Kurt doesn’t trust either version of his recollection.Determined to know the truth, he begins to search for answers, and soon finds himself descending into a shadowy world of state-sponsored cybercrime, and uncovering a pattern of vanishing scientists, suspicious accidents, and a web of human trafficking. With the help of Joe Zavala, he takes on the sinister organization at the heart of this web, facing off with them in locations ranging from Monaco to North Korea to the rugged coasts of Madagascar. But where he will ultimately end up¾even he could not begin to guess.

Le vaisseau fantôme

1907. Le raccourci des Cascades, une voie express vitale reliant San Francisco et le nord des États-Unis, subit une succession de sabotages. Impuissante devant ces attaques qui compromettent l'avancée des travaux et l'avenir de la ligne, la compagnie de chemins de fer fait appel à l'agence de détectives Van Dorn. Cette dernière envoie sur place son meilleur agent : Isaac Bell. Le défi est de taille, car celui qui recrute des hommes de main dans les saloons et parmi les marginaux, avant de les faire disparaître, brouille les pistes et semble insaisissable. Que cherche-t-il ? Est-ce un anarchiste ? Ou un esprit pervers aux projets machiavéliques ? De New York à Boston en passant par San Francisco, Bell sillonne le pays pour traquer le Saboteur. Bientôt, l’agent devra rassembler tout son talent, non seulement pour sauver la Southern Pacific... mais pour en réchapper.

Le Saboteur (Isaac Bell, #2)

Dirk Pitt discovers Atlantis, in a breathtaking novel from the grand master of adventure fiction. Clive Cussler has long since proven himself one of America's most popular authors--a master of intricate, audacious plotting and "vibrant, rollicking narrative" (Chicago Tribune). But Atlantis Found may be his most audacious novel of all.September l858: An Antarctic whaler stumbles upon an aged wreck, its grisly frozen crew guarding crates of odd antiquities--and a skull carved from black obsidian.March 200l: A team of anthropologists gazes in awe at a wall of strange inscriptions, moments before a blast seals them deep within the Colorado rock.April 200l: A research ship manned by Dirk Pitt and members of the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency is set upon and nearly sunk by an impossibility--a vessel that should have died fifty-six years before.Pitt knows that somehow all these incidents are connected, and his investigations soon land him deep into an ancient mystery with very modern consequences, up against a diabolical enemy unlike any he has ever known, and racing to save not only his own life but the future of the world itself.The trap is set. The clock is ticking. And only one man stands between earth and Armageddon. . . .Filled with dazzling suspense and astonishing set pieces, this is Clive Cussler's greatest adventure novel yet."I've always had tremendous fun with Dirk Pitt, but nothing has given me more pleasure than the opportunity to send him to that most fabled of lost lands, Atlantis, and to virtually reinvent aspects of its civilization. I hope you have as good a time reading Atlantis Found as I did writing it!"--Clive Cussler

Atlantide (Dirk Pitt, #15)

Clive Cussler Iceberg Le navire garde-côtes Catawaba vogue dans l'Atlantique Nord, pas très loin de l'Islande. A son bord, un scientifique, Hunnewell, spécialiste des formations glaciaires. Et Dirk Pitt, l'homme des missions aventureuses en mer, bien connu des lecteurs de Trésor ou de Cyclope.
Leur objectif : un iceberg, qui dérive lentement vers le sud, emportant avec lui, nettement visible en transparence,  un bateau emprisonné dans sa gangue de glace. Leur mission : percer les secrets que détient dans ses flancs cet incroyable vaisseau fantôme.
Des secrets dangereux, assurément. A preuve les quinze hommes qu'ils vont découvrir à son bord et qui ont été atrocement exécutés au lance-flammes.

Iceberg

In The Sea Hunters, his first nonfiction book, Cussler explores the special world of undersea adventure that inspired and has its fictional parallel in the Dirk Pitt novels. He describes his lifelong love for the sea and ships, and how his involvement with the search for John Paul Jones's famous Revolutionary War ship, the Bonhomme Richard, led to his establishing the NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and preservation of historic shipwrecks. From the more than sixty shipwrecks Cussler and his NUMA volunteers have found, he has chosen the twelve most interesting, whether because of the ship's history, the circumstances of its sinking, or the trouble, frustration, and peril that were encountered while trying to find the sunken wreck. With the same wonderful storytelling that Cussler brings to his novels, he describes his searches for such ships as the Union 24-gun frigate Cumberland, sunk during the Civil War by the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly the Merrimack); the Confederate Hunley, which became the first submarine in history to sink a warship; the U-21, a German U-boat, which during World War I became the first sub to sink a warship and escape; and the American troop transport Leopoldville, which was destroyed by a German submarine on Christmas Eve, 1944, with huge loss of life; as well as Engine #51, the lost locomotive of Kiowa Creek, which roared off a storm-weakened high bridge in 1878. The wrecks date as far back as 1840 and span the continental United States, the Atlantic Ocean, and the North Sea.

Chasseurs D Epaves

391 ADFanatics burn down the greatest storehouse of knowledge and treasure in the ancient world—the mighty library and museum of Alexandria. But a few conspirators secretly remove the most precious items and hide them deep in a specially excavated stronghold...1991 ADA UN plane, with the Secretary-General aboard, crashes in the icy waters of Greenland, brought down by a murderous conspiracy. And trouble-shooter Dirk Pitt is drawn into a deadly battle, against the darkest forces of international terrorism, that could reshape the balance of world power forever.

Pacific Vortex (Dirk Pitt)

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