Cussler, Clive

Author Clive Cussler discusses his real-life adventures as founder of the National Underwater Marine Agency, focusing on twelve incidents in which the agency sought and found sunken ships, each prefaced by a creative dramatization of the ship and the way it met its end.

Dirk Pitt uncovers a plan of an Asian shipping family only to discover an even deepr plot by the Russians to subvert the American government.

From an island off the coast of Australia, a diamond tycoon heads an unchecked reign of terror. Governments worldwide are under his thumb, but he has never reckoned with the righteous fury of a man like Dirk Pitt.

Detective Isaac Bell, working for the Van Dorn Detective Agency in 1907, is sent to stop a man known only as the Wrecker, a criminal who traverses the American West, sabotaging railroads and causing death while building up to what Bell guesses will be a grandiose and devastating act.

When the U.S. secretary of state's plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Juan Cabrillo to search for her--in a manhunt that pits him against Islamic terrorists and a search for answers regarding a centuries-old Islamic manuscript.

Dirk Pitt, special projects director of NUMA, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, becomes engulfed in a series of bizarre events that will change his life forever when he sets out to investigate the cause of the fire that sank the cruise ship Emerald Dolphin in July, 2003.

Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA's Special Assignments Team, is called in to stop a shadowy multinational corporation that is trying to gain control of the seas and killing anyone who tries to stop it.

After NUMA hero Dirk Pitt's daughter, a marine biologist, discovers an ancient artifact off the coast of Nicaragua, the sea crew and a floating resort hotel find themselves in the path of a terrible storm and someone's dangerous designs.

Archaeologist Nina Kirov, attacked after making an astonishing discovery, teams up with Kurt Austin, leader of the National Underwater Marine Agency, to try and learn why archaeologists around the world are being brutally murdered, and together they discover an ancient secret that will challenge some of America's basic historical beliefs.

Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Assignments Team face a daunting task--saving all life on Earth--when an anti-globalization group decides to send a message to the world's industrialized nations by artificially triggering a polar shift.