2010: #7 – Pacific Vortex! (Clive Cussler)

Dirk Pitt’s first, most terrific adventure! Dirk Pitt, death-defying adventurer and deep-sea expert, is out to the ultimate test as he plunges into the perilous waters of the Pacific Vortex — a fog-shrouded sea zone where dozens of ships have vanished without a trace. The latest victim is the awesome superb Starbuck, America’s deep-diving nuclear arsenal. Its loss poses an unthinkable threat to national defense. Pitt’s job is to find it, salvage it, before the sea explodes. In a furious race against time, Pitt’s mission swirls him into a battle with underwater assassins-and traps him in the arms of Summer Moran, the most stunningly exotic and dangerous toward disaster, Clive Cussler plummets his hero onto an ancient sunken island-the astonishing setting for the explosive climax of Pacific Vortex!

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2009: #109 – Vixen 03 (Clive Cussler)

1954. Vixen 03 is down. The plane, bound for the Pacific carrying thirty-six Doomsday bombs — canisters armed with quick-death germs of unbelievable potency — vanishes. Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. 1988. Dirk Pitt, who heroically raised the Titanic, discovers the wreckage of Vixen 03. But two deadly canisters are missing. They’re in the hands of a terrorist group. Their lethal mission: to sail a battleship seventy-five miles up the Potomac and blast Washington, D.C., to kingdom come. Only Dirk can stop them.

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2007: #85 – Raise the Titanic! (Clive Cussler)

Book #85 was Raise the Titanic!, the fourth book in Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt series. The back of the book reads: The President’s secret task force develops the ultimate defensive weapon. At its core: byzanium, a radioactive element so rare sufficient quantities have never been found. But a frozen American corpse on a desolate Soviet mountainside, a bizarre mining accident in Colorado, and a madman’s

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2007: #35 – Iceberg (Clive Cussler)

Book #35 was Iceberg, the 3rd book in Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt series. The back of the book reads: Frozen inside a million-ton mass of ice–the charred remains of a long-missing luxury yacht, vanished en route to a secret White House rendezvous. The only clue to the ship’s priceless–and missing–cargo: nine ornately carved rings and the horribly burned bodies of its crew. Worst Dirk Pitt

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