Book Preview A Dirk Pitt Adventure v1.0 08-Nov-2001 OCR 300DPI b/w, ABBYY Finereader 5, layout w/ Word2k and full proofing by 4i Publications. The original hardcover was in VG condition, so minimal amount of OCR errors. Full proofing took care of the rest. This e-book should be 99% error-free v1.1 Misc editing/formatting Read the full … Read more
Book Preview RAFT OF THE GLADIATOR Of the four clipper ships built in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1854, one stood out from the others. She was the Gladiator, a big ship of 1,256 tons, 198 feet in length and a 34-foot beam, with three towering masts reaching for the sky at a rakish angle. She was … Read more
Book Preview THE MYSTERIOUS INTRUDERS They came from the south with the morning sun, shimmering like ghosts in a desert mirage as they slipped across the sun-sparkled water. The rectangular cotton sails on the flotilla of rafts sagged lifelessly under a placid azure sky. No commands were spoken as the crews dipped and pulled their … Read more
Book Preview She seemed to float above the ghostly evening mist like a menacing beast rising from the primeval ooze. Her low silhouette stood black and ominous against the backdrop of the trees along the shoreline. Shadowy, phantom-like images of men moved across her decks under the eerie yellow glow of lanterns as moisture trickled … Read more
Book Preview Shemya Island, Alaska The devil clutched a bomb in his left hand, a pitchfork in his right, and smirked impishly. He might have appeared menacing if it wasn’t for the exaggerated eyebrows and the half-moon eyes. They gave him more of a sleepy gremlin look than the fiendish expression expected from the ruler … Read more
Book Preview Books by Clive Cussler The Mediterranean Caper POCKET BOOKS New York London Toronto Sydney Tokyo Singapore POCKET BOOKS, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc. 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 Copyright (D 1988 by Clive Cussler Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or … Read more
Book Preview The Cyclops had less than one hour to live. In forty-eight minutes she would become a mass tomb for her 309 passengers and crew– a tragedy unforeseen and unheralded by ominous premonitions, mocked by an empty sea and a diamond-clear sky. Even the seagulls that had haunted her wake for the past week … Read more
Book Preview Other Books BY CLIVE CUSSLER THE MEDITERRANEAN CAPER SIMON AND SCHUSTER NEW YORK This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincinental. COPYRIGHT … Read more
Book Preview v1.1 Misc OCR cleanup, fixed broken paragraphs, seperated joined paragraphs, misc formatting ††† Two undercover couriers plummet to watery deaths in twin disasters, taking with them the only two copies of the North American Treaty, a precedent-shattering secret pact between the United States and Great Britain. On both sides of the Atlantic, stunned … Read more
Book Preview Buckley Field, Colorado-January 1954 The Boeing C-97 Stratocruiser bore the look of a crypt. Perhaps the image was bred by the cold winter night, or perhaps it came from the gusting snow that was piling an icy shroud on the wings and fuselage. The flickering lights from the cockpit windshield and the fleeting … Read more
Book Preview When Dirk Pitt salvaged the Titanic from the pages of a typewriter set in a damp corner of an unfinished basement, the legendary ocean liner was still ten years away from actual discovery. The year was 1975 and Raise the Titanic became the fourth book in Pitt’s underwater adventures. Then, no one was … Read more
Book Preview The drug-induced sleep wore off into nothingness, and the girl began the agonizing struggle back to consciousness. A dim and hazy light greeted her slowly opening eyes while a disgusting, putrid stench invaded her nostrils. She was nude, her bare back pressed flat against a damp, yellow, slime-coated wall. It was unreal, an … Read more
Book Preview It was oven hot, and it was Sunday. In the air traffic tower, the control operator at Brady Air Force Base lit a cigarette from a still glowing butt, propped his stocking feet on top of a portable air conditioner and waited for He was totally bored, and for good reason. Air traffic … Read more
Book Preview Not that it really matters, but this is the first Dirk Pitt story. When I mustered up the discipline to write a suspense/adventure series, I cast around for a hero who cut a different mold. One who wasn’t a secret agent, police detective, or a private investigator. Someone with rough edges, yet a … Read more
Book Preview Huddled in a modern, all-glass conference room in Greenville, South Carolina, with afternoon sunshine streaming through every window, a dozen of us were preparing for the presidential debate that evening. Our campaign had just shocked the world by winning Iowa. We placed third in New Hampshire, and South Carolina was the next primary … Read more
Book Preview Pandemonium ensued. There were angry glares, heated accusations. Red-faced name-calling echoed off the walls and vaulted ceilings in a room just off the main corridor of the U.S. Capitol. It was Tuesday, February 11, 2014. Another lunch of the Senate Republicans. I’d been a regular part of these gatherings ever since I was … Read more
Book Preview From the Writings of the First Recorder (“The Book of Twelves”) Presented at the Third Global Conference on the North American Quarantine Period Center for the Study of Human Cultures and Conflicts University of New South Wales, Indo-Australian Republic April 16–21, 1003 A.V. [Excerpt 2 begins.] From the Writings of the First Recorder … Read more
Book Preview She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, maybe I didn’t. There was a house, and then no house. There were trees, but none remain. When no one remembers, what is there? You, whose moments are gone, who drift like smoke in the … Read more