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21) The assassin
Author
Series
Isaac Bell novels volume 8
Physical Desc
409 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The new thriller in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Isaac Bell series from grand master of adventure Clive Cussler. As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassin-shooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long range-kills Bell's best...
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Series
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English
Description
The dazzling new novel in the #1 New York Times -bestselling NUMA Files series from the grand master of adventure. Kurt and Joe tangle with the most determined enemy they've ever encountered when a ruthless powerbroker schemes to build a new Egyptian empire as glorious as those of the Pharaohs. Part of his plan rests on the manipulation of a newly discovered aquifer beneath the Sahara, but an even more devastating weapon at his disposal may threaten...
23) The gray ghost
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
"The search for a legendary automobile threatens the careers and lives of husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo in this thrilling adventure in Clive Cussler's bestselling series. In 1906, a groundbreaking Rolls-Royce prototype known as the Gray Ghost vanishes from the streets of Manchester, England, and it is only the lucky intervention of an American detective named Isaac Bell that prevents it from being lost forever. Not even he can save the...
Author
Series
The Oregon files volume Book 12
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As they hunt for a bunch of paintings worth a walloping half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew aboard the Oregon chance upon a much bigger problem. A Filipino rebel leader is not only using them to finance the insurgency but has discovered a drug developed yet never used by the Japanese during World War II that makes mega warriors of ordinary soldiers. Not so far-fetched given the revelations of Norman Ohler's recent Blitzed: Drugs in...
25) Skeleton Coast
Author
Series
Oregon Files volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew rescue beautiful Sloane Macintyre when her boat is attacked off the African coast, and face a deranged militant who plans to launch a devastating force of nature against those who oppose him.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew race to identify a link between an ancient Egyptian treasure, a 1927 daredevil aviator's disappearance and the sinking of a modern fishing trawler to prevent a scheme by a cutthroat arms dealer."--
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
408 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again-and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is so precious? Only something that will revolutionize business and popular culture-and perhaps something more....
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
To pull off their latest mission, Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must survive a devastating new 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 against US security that the country has ever...
29) Devil's gate
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
474 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster-when their boat explodes. What is happening in this part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"NUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the world's most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankind's last in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. Russia and China covet the radical...
31) Black wind
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt 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.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The new Oregon Files adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation's accounts. To get the money back, Juan joins forces with an old friend from his days in the CIA so they can track down a rogue hacker and a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer. It is only after...
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Series
A Dirk Pitt novel volume 24
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Over the years, Dirk Pitt has always had a knack for finding trouble. This time, it has found him. The extraordinary new novel from the grand master of adventure and #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Pitt, the director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is on the Black Sea, helping to locate a lost Ottoman shipwreck, when he responds to an urgent Mayday - "Under attack!" - from a nearby freighter. But when he and his colleague Al Giordino...
Author
Series
Oregon Files volume 6
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
347 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English