Bøger af Clive Cussler

Alldeles nyligen njöt Dirk Pitt av solen och värmen i Kalifornien, då ett brådskande samtal fick honom att överge Stilla havets ljumma bris och bege sig rakt in i Nordatlantens isande kyla.Ett fartyg som länge varit försvunnet har hittats fastfruset i ett isberg. Där görs en bisarr upptäckt – alla ombord är brända till oigenkännlighet. Fartygets ovärderliga last är dock borta, en last som skulle kunna rubba den känsliga maktbalansen i världen.Upptäckten för Dirk Pitt in i ett virrvarr av villospår som döljer ett nätverk bestående av världens tolv rikaste män. Tillsammans försöker dessa män genomföra en världsomspännande komplott där flera nationers existens står på spel.Också i verkligheten ägnar sig bestsellerförfattaren Clive Cussler åt äventyr, precis som Dirk Pitt, hjälten i hans böcker. “Jag vill gärna tro att det finns mycket av Dirk Pitt i mig”, säger han. Cussler driver organisationen NUMA, som letar efter förlista fartyg i världshaven. Hittills har man funnit mer än sextio skepp av historisk betydelse.Clive Cussler började sin författarbana på 70-talet. Sedan dess har hans böcker sålts i 72 länder i över 70 miljoner exemplar och översatts till 32 olika språk.

Det vakthavande befälet på den amerikanska flygbasen trodde inte sina ögon. Planet som kom flygande rakt emot honom var en antik tysk Albatross från första världskriget! Men det fanns inget antikt över kulsprutorna som förvandlade de parkerade jetplanen till flammande skrothögar.Allt skulle ha varit förlorat om inte Dirk Pitt och Al Giordino just då hade kommit flygande i sin gamla Catalina. Och snart utkämpades världshistoriens underligaste luftstrid – en tysk dubbeldäckare från det första världskriget mot en flygbåt från det andra!Men detta var bara början på ett av de märkligaste och farligaste äventyr Dirk Pitt och hans följeslagare varit med om. Ett äventyr där några av huvudrollerna spelades av en förrymd krigsförbrytare, en vacker men opålitlig brunett – och en dödlig last i miljardklassen.Clive Cusslers liv och personlighet har många likheter med den äventyrlige hjälten i hans böcker – Dirk Pitt. Han har letat efter bortglömda guldgruvor i Amerikas öknar, dykt efter försvunna flygplan i Klippiga bergens sjöar och efter mytomspunna, försvunna skepp i världshaven. Dessutom är han en entusiastisk och kunnig samlare av veteranbilar och äger i dag sjuttiofem unika exemplar.Cussler bor omväxlande i Denver, Colorado och Paradise Valley, Arizona, där han skriver sina romaner, som ständigt finns på bestsellerlistorna i såväl USA som Europa.

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Includes an excerpt from the author's "Celtic empire."

Isaac Bell may be on the hunt for the greatest monster of all time in the newest action-adventure novel from the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency has had many extraordinary cases before. But none quite like this. Hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape who ran away from home to become an actress, Bell gets a shock when her murdered body turns up instead. Vowing to bring the killer to justice, he begins a manhunt which leads him into increasingly more alarming territory. Anna Pape was not alone in her fate petite young blond women like Anna are being murdered in cities across America. And the pattern goes beyond the physical resemblance of the victims there are disturbing familiarities about the killings themselves that send a chill through even a man as experienced with evil as Bell. If he is right about his fears, then he is on the trail of one of the greatest monsters of his time."

Turn-of-the-century detective Isaac Bell goes undercover as a coal miner for his first solo mission in this novel in Clive Cussler's #1 New York Times bestselling series. It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines, he is witness to a terrible accident that makes him think something else is going on…that provocateurs are at work and bigger stakes are in play. Little does he know just how big they are. Given exactly one week to prove his case, Bell quickly finds himself pitted against two of the most ruthless opponents he has ever known-men of staggering ambition and cold-bloodedness who are not about to let some wet-behind-the-ears detective stand in their way.

A PLUNDERED TREASURE IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS... A DEVASTATING NUCLEAR EXPLOSION IN THE PACIFIC... AN EVIL PLOT TO BRING THE WEST TO ITS KNEES!Japan, 1945: Two U.S. bombers take off with atomic bombs. Only one gets through.The Pacific, 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the United States is instantly, thunderously vaporized, taking with it a Norwegian vessel. Japanese fanatics have developed a chilling plan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. From the ocean depths to the discovery of cache of lost Nazi loot.DIRK PITT "RM" is untangling a savage conspiracy and igniting a daring counterattack. While Washington bureaucrats scramble, a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from a secret island control center. And DIRK PITT, the dauntless hero of Sahara and Inca Gold, is taking on death-dealing robots and a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors. Pitt alone controls the West's secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave of destruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor!

Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in a race to find the famed burial site of Attila the Hun in this adventure in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.When an archeologist friend requests their help to excavate a top-secret historical site, the Fargos are intrigued. But they have no idea that their discoveries will set them on a hunt for a prize beyond all imagination.The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold, jewels, and plunder: a bounty that has never been found.As they follow a trail throughout Europe, it leads them not to one tomb, but five. The Fargos also find themselves pitted against a thieving group of treasure hunters, a cunning Russian businessman, and a ruthless Hungarian who claims direct descent from Attila himself-and will stop at nothing to achieve his destiny...

Casey and Lacey Nicefolk seem like two regular, all-American kids. But these twins have a secret: a magical box that can turn any small object life-size! So they dream up a plan to turn a toy boat into the life-size Hotsy Totsy and enter a national boat race. With their dog, Floopy, along for the ride, the twins zip up to San Francisco, ready for excitement. But this is no ordinary boat, and this is no ordinary race. Casey and Lacey must work together in a nautical adventure that turns into a risky race to the finish line!

Dirk Pitt's hunt for ancient Egyptian treasure is sidetracked when the White House's threatened by terrorists from Egypt and Mexico, and a cruise ship carrying the presidents of Egypt and Mexico is hijacked.

Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon find themselves exposed when a brilliant scientist blows their cover in this adventure in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. In 1902, the volcano Mt. Pelée erupts on the island of Martinique, wiping out an entire city of thirty thousand-and sinking a ship carrying a German scientist on the verge of an astonishing breakthrough. More than a century later, Juan Cabrillo will have to deal with that scientist's legacy.During a covert operation, Cabrillo and the crew meticulously fake the sinking of the Oregon-but when an unknown adversary tracks them down despite their planning and attempts to assassinate them, Cabrillo and his team struggle to fight back against an enemy who seems to be able to anticipate their every move. They discover that a traitorous American weapons designer has completed the German scientist's work, and now wields extraordinary power, sending the Oregon on a race against time to stop an attack that could lead to one man ruling over the largest empire the world has ever known.

For use in schools and libraries only. When Dirk Pitt discovers the wreckage of Vixen 03, a plane that crashed in 1954 carrying 36 Doomsday Bombs, he finds that two are missing and in the hands of a terrorist group.

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Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew are hired to save a wealthy Indonesian businessman's son from the influence of the Taliban in this #1 New York Times-bestselling adventure series.Jungles come in many forms. There are the steamy rain forests of the Burmese highlands. There are the lies and betrayals of the world of covert operations. And there are the dark and twisted thoughts of a man bent on near-global domination. To pull off their latest mission, Cabrillo and his remarkable men and women must survive them all. A devastating weapon unleashed in thirteenth-century China . . . a daring rescue in the snowbound mountains along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border . . . a woman gone missing in the jungles of northern Thailand and Myanmar . . . for Cabrillo and company, all of these events will come together-leading to the greatest threat the United States has ever known.

Twentieth century detective Isaac Bell takes on the world of warfare when America's naval research and development experts begin to die one by one in this #1 New York Times-bestselling historical action adventure. 1908 marks a year of ever-escalating international tension as the world plunges toward war. And with America on the brink, it comes as a devastating blow to learn of the apparent suicide of one of the United States' most brilliant battleship-gun designers. The death becomes a media sensation, and the man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon sees that the clues point not to suicide, but to murder. As Bell notices more suspicious deaths among the nation's sharpest technological minds, he begins to suspect the work of an elusive spy somehow connected to a top-secret project called Hull 44. But that is just the beginning. As the intrigue deepens, Bell will find himself pitted against German, Japanese, and British spies, in a mission that encompasses dreadnought battleships, Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet, Chinatown, Hell's Kitchen, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Isaac Bell has certainly faced perilous situations before, but this time it is more than the future of his country that's at stake-it's the fate of the world.