pitt, dirk (fictitious character)

A companion guide to the works of Clive Cussler, featuring an interview with the author; plot synopses of the Dirk Pitt novels; a discussion of Cussler's nonfiction book, "The Sea Hunters"; a concordance of continuing characters, organizations, devices, and locations; and the prologue to "Atlantis Found.".

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.

When Dirk Pitt saves a group of archaeologists from drowning, he finds himself caught up in a smuggling ring searching for lost Inca treasure.

While working for the National Underwater and Marine Agency, Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino uncover the deadly plans of a Mongolian mogul to deal oil to the Chinese and ruin the global market, and discover the scheme is linked to the treasures of Genghis Khan.

A radiation leak exposes a plot by the Japanese to take over the world and sends Dirk Pitt to the bottom of the ocean to launch a daring counterattack.

A deadly plague is killing dolphins and seals in the Weddell Sea and has now extended its reach to claim the lives of humans. Dirk Pitt, researcher with the National Underwater and Marine Agency must find the source of the plague and head off a disaster that will claim the lives of millions of people and animals.

Dirk Pitt, the Special Projects Director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, becomes involved in a perilous mission when he is sent to find and salvage a deep-diving nuclear submarine that has inexplicably disappeared in the Pacific Ocean.

Dirk Pitt, an operative for NUMA, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is called into action when a long-missing luxury yacht is found frozen in a million-ton mass of ice, its crew members incinerated at their posts, and its deadly top-secret cargo missing.

Dirk Pitt races to save the future of the world when he is assigned by the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency to find the link between the 1858 discovery of an aged wreck full of crates of antiquities, and two modern-day incidents that claimed the lives of a team of anthropologists and almost sank a NUMA vessel.