Book Preview For Kerry, with my love. D.E.C. August 10, 1281 A.D. Hakata Bay, Japan Arik Temur peered into the darkness and tilted his head toward the side rail as the sound of oars dipping through the water grew louder. When the noise closed to within a few feet, he slouched back into the shadows, … Read more
Book Preview With appreciation and gratitude to Scott Danneker, Mikejntzpatrick, Mike Hance, and George Spyrou of Airship Management Services, for sharing the wondrous world of airship flight. Thanks also to Sheldon Harris, whose book Factories of Death has helped open the door to the horrors of biological and chemical warfare practiced during World War II … Read more
Book Preview G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK Dirk Pitt battles his deadliest, and most extraordinary, foe–with help from a very unexpected source. Long hailed as the grand master of adventure fiction, Clive Cussler has continued to astound with the intricate plotting and astonishing set pieces of his novels. Now, with a few surprising twists, he … Read more
Book Preview A Dirk Pitt Adventure SOMEWHERE IN NORTH AMERICA They moved through the morning mist like ghosts, silent and eerie in phantom ships. Tall, serpentine prows arched gracefully on bow and stern, crowned with intricately carved dragons, teeth bared menacingly in a growl as if their eyes were piercing the vapor in search of … Read more
Book Preview What is now Hudson Bay, Canada The intruder came from beyond. A nebulous celestial body as old as the universe itself, it had been born in a vast cloud of ice, rocks, dust, and gas when the outer planets of the solar system were formed 4.6 billion years ago. Soon after its scattered … Read more
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