Dirk Pitt adventures
Author
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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A WWI fighter plane attacks a modern airbase ... a saboteur preys on a scientific expedition and Dirk Pitt plays a game of hunter and hunted.
3) Iceberg
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Dirk Pitt confronts a conspiracy to hijack a continent in a deadly Arctic confrontation over a long-missing yacht with a priceless cargo.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 4
Language
English
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Description
U.S. security is at stake and the only hope is a rare element 2 miles below sea level--in the hold of the Titanic!
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2010, c1978
Physical Desc
xxiv, 434 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
6) Night probe!
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 6
Language
English
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Description
Dirk Pitt must descend to the bottom of the Hudson River to recover a copy of the secret North American Treaty signed in 1914, but Great Britain is racing to find and destroy the same document.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 7
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1984
Physical Desc
432 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A deadly tide of poison flows into ocean waters, a ghost ship drifts across the empty northern Pacific, and the President's yacht disappears without a trace.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts toward Florida with a crew of dead men|Soviet cosmonauts. Dirk Pitt discovers a shocking scheme: a covert group of US industrialists has put a colony on the moon, a secret base they will defend at any cost. Threatened in space, the Russians are about to strike a savage blow in Cuba|and only NUMA|s Dirk Pitt can stop them. From a Cuban...
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Charts of lost gold...breathtaking art and rare volumes...maps of hidden oil and mineral deposits that could change the balance of power in the world. DIRK PITT discovers a secret trail to the treasures of Alexandria--and is plunged into a brutal conspiracy for total domination of the globe. Zealots threaten to unseat the government of Egypt and Mexico, exposing America to invasion and economic collapse. From East to West, anarchists are reaching...
10) Dragon: a novel
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 10
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
542 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Adventurer Dirk Pitt matches wits with a group of Japanese nationalist extremists out to establish a new empire as he races against time to recover an atomic bomb lost in the Pacific aboard a B-29 during World War II.
11) Sahara
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
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Description
"Egypt, 1996. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, Dirk Pitt thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist who|s investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world|s seas."--Amazon.com
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
An action-filled chase through the Amazon jungle for 16th Century Spanish treasure. Joining in the pursuit are Dirk Pitt, the hero, his congresswoman girlfriend, the FBI, the Customs Service, archaeologists, a tribe of local Indians, smugglers and various thieves. There's plenty of treasure for everyone, the gold requiring 200 men just to lift.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dirk Pitt meets the most intriguing and sinister villain of his adventurous career, Arthur Dorsett, a billionaire Australian diamond king. Pitt discovers that a deadly plague, which is killing dolphins and seals, is caused by Dorsetts̀ diamond-mining technology. A deadly race develops to stop the murderous mining operations and to head off a disaster that will kill millions.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 14
Language
English
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Description
The coin of the realm for the wealthy, insatiably greedy Chinese smuggler who is Dirk Pitt's adversary in Flood Tide is human lives: much of his vast fortune has been made smuggling Chinese immigrants into countries around the globe, including the United States. Tracking the smuggler's nefarious activities leads Pitt from Washington State to Louisiana, where his quarry is mysteriously constructing a huge shipping port in the middle of nowhere. Why...
15) Atlantis found
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Agent Dirk Pitt of the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency battles genetically engineered neo-Nazis, seeking to establish a Fourth Reich once they wipe out humanity. They plan to unleash a flood by splitting the Antarctic ice shelf. A beautiful archeologist is on hand to help the hero.
16) Valhalla rising
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
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Description
Confronting an extraordinary series of monsters, both human and mechanical, modern and ancient, NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt treads upon territory previously known only to legend as he investigates the sinking of a luxury cruise ship, the "Emerald Dolphin". In the high-tech adventure, the past and future collide to create a whale of a tale to equal Cussler's bestselling "Atlantis Found."
17) Trojan odyssey
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
18) Black wind
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
In the final days of World War II, the Japanese launch two submarines carrying a new strain of a deadly virus to the west coast of the United States, but years after the subs are lost at sea, someone plots to use their deadly cargo.
19) Treasure of Khan
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
When Dirk Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team, it appears a simple act of nature. But when the survey team is abducted and Pitt's research vessel nearly sunk, however, it's obvious there's something more sinister involved. All trails lead to Mongolia where a mysterious mogul is conducting covert deals for supplying oil to the Chinese while wreaking havoc on global oil markets utilizing a secret technology. The Mongolian harbors a dream...
20) Arctic drift
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war . . . NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to...
21) Crescent dawn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
NUMA director Dirk Pitt searches for the connections among newly discovered Roman artifacts, the rise of a fundamentalist movement, and the existence of a mysterious long-lost "manifest," which, if discovered again, may change the history of the world.
22) Poseidon's arrow
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 22
Language
English
Description
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.
23) Havana Storm
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 23
Language
English
Description
"While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous--a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure. The problem is, that...
24) Odessa sea
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 24
Language
English
Description
A desperate attempt in 1917 to preserve the wealth and power of the Romanov Empire. A Cold War bomber lost with a deadly cargo. Mysterious deaths on the Black Sea linked to modern day smugglers of nuclear materials. At the center of it all is Dirk Pitt and his team from NUMA. As the danger escalates, there's only one man who can avert catastrophe. From London to Washington, from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, the action never stops, as Pitt races...
25) Celtic empire
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 25
Language
English
Description
"The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. An attack by tomb raiders on an archaeological site along the banks of the Nile. Is there a link between these violent events? The answer may lie in the tale of an Egyptian princess forced to flee the armies of her father three thousand years ago. During what was supposed to be a routine investigation in South America,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
571 pages (large print) : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fearless adventurer Dirk Pitt must unravel a historical mystery of epic importance in the latest novel in the beloved New York Times In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea over 60 years later, new clues emerge to its hidden existence. But...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musee de l'Armee is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt is on a diving expedition...