pitt, dirk (fictitious character)

Dirk Pitt and his crew face new dangers after locating the sunken Titanic.

Ruthless Austrian entrepreneur Edward Bolcke has managed to steal a crucial component of the U.S. Navy's latest submarine technology -- and he has found a way to hijack the world's supply of rare earth minerals. The three Pitts, along with longstanding sidekick Al Giordino, use their usual mix of brains and brawn to see that justice is served.

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 North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together?.

Dirk Pitt faces the most formidable foe of his career when he encounters billionaire shipping magnate Qin Shang who is obsessed with salvaging the Princess Dou Wan, a ship reportedly loaded with Chinese art treasures--including the bones of Peking Man.

The President's secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on an extremely rare radioactive element, and Dirk Pitt has followed a twisted trail to a secret cache of the substance. Now, racing against brutal storms, Soviet spies, and a ticking clock, Pitt begins his most thrilling mission--to raise from its watery grave the shipwreck of the century.

Dirk Pitt sets out on an expedition with his children along the treacherous Northwest Passage to find a silvery mineral, which will prove his theory and link the causes for the sudden deaths in British Columbia and the incidents between the United States and an ally.

National Underwater and Marine Agency head Dirk Pitt, his marine engineer son, Dirk, and his marine biologist daughter, Summer, struggle to prevent two World War II-era Japanese submarines carrying biological weapons from getting into the wrong hands.

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.