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 find it before events escalate out of control. Their only real clue might just be a mysterious silvery mineral traced to a long-ago expedition in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. But no one survived from that doomed mission, captain and crew perished to a man — and if Pitt and his colleague Al Giordino aren’t careful, the very same fate may await them.

An Antarctic whaler stumbles across an aged wreck — her frozen crew guarding a priceless treasure.A team of anthropologists is buried under a mountain by a deliberate explosion.A ship that should have died fifty-six years ago reappears, and almost sinks a National Underwater and Marine Agency ship.Dirk Pitt knows that somehow these events are connected. His investigations lead to an ancient mystery with devastating modern consequences, and a diabolical enemy unlike any he has ever known. Now, he is racing to save not only his life — but the world. The trap is set. The clock is ticking. And only one man stands between the earth and Armageddon…

Clive Cussler's dazzling new Dirk Pitt(r) adventure. Nobody has been able to match Cussler yet for the intricate plotting and sheer audacity of his work, and *Black Wind* sets the bar even higher. In the waning days of World War II, the Japanese tried a last desperate measure-a different kind of kamikaze mission, this one carried out by two submarines bound for the West Coast of the United States, their cargo a revolutionary new strain of biological virus. Neither sub made it to the designated target. But that does not mean they were lost. Someone knows about the subs and what they bore, knows too where they might be, and has an extraordinary plan in store for the prize inside-a scheme that could reshape the world as we know it. All that stands in the way are three people: a marine biologist named Summer, a marine engineer named Dirk, and their father, Dirk Pitt, the new head of NUMA. Pitt has faced devastating enemies before, and has even teamed up with his children to track them down. But never has he looked upon the face of pure evil . . . until now. Filled with dazzling suspense and breathtaking action, *Black Wind* is Cussler at the height of his storytelling powers.

Tom 2 cyklu „Z archiwów NUMA”.Pradawna legenda, rewolucyjne odkrycie i najsłynniejszy obok Dirka Pitta bohater Cusslera w pojedynku z szaleńcem opanowanym żądzą władzy.Rok 1991. Brazylijska uczona dokonuje epokowego odkrycia. Ale jej samolot przepada gdzieś nad Ameryką Południową…Rok 2001. Kurt Austin i członkowie NUMA napotykają u wybrzeży Kalifornii stado martwych wielorybów. Usiłując odkryć przyczynę śmierci zwierząt, docierają do tajnego podwodnego laboratorium, opuszczonej bazy lotniczej na Alasce, a wreszcie do serca wenezuelskiej dżungli i tajemniczego plemienia – strażników niewyobrażalnego sekretu. I ujawniają zbrodniczy plan, którego celem jest panowanie nad światem…

A POD OF WHALES, DEAD WITHOUT REASON IN SAN DIEGO BAY . . . A PRIMITIVE BRAZILIAN TRIBE WHOSE SECRETS COULD SAVE LIVES . . .A BILLIONAIRE TYCOON SET ON WORLD DOMINATION . . .An investigation into the sudden deaths of a pod of gray whales leads National Underwater & Marine Agency leader Kurt Austin to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently out of commission. Meanwhile, in South America’s lush hills, a specially assigned NUMA® team discovers a murdered body-a member of a mysterious local tribe, who live like ghosts beyond a five-part waterfall the locals call the Hand of God, and are rumored to be led by a mythical white goddess. Now they are in danger from a vicious cadre of bio-pirates intent on stealing medicinal discoveries worth millions.

In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together?NUMA director Dirk Pitt is about to find out, as Roman artifacts discovered in Turkey and Israel unnervingly connect to the rise of a fundamentalist movement determined to restore the glory of the Ottoman Empire, and to the existence of a mysterious "manifest," lost long ago, which if discovered again… just may change the history of the world as we know it.

Un célebre multimillonario americano desaparece mientras vuela en un dirigible sobre el Caribe buscando el tesoro del naufragado barco mercante Cyclops…El Presidente de los Estados Unidos recibe una misteriosa propuesta de pacto de amistad por parte de Fidel Castro…En la Luna vive un grupo de científicos americanos que desarrolla el proyecto «Jersey», altamente confidencial, a punto de ser descubierto por los rusos…¿Tienen alguna relación entre sí estas tres situaciones, a simple vista tan dispares? ¿Existe un hilo comunicante?En todos estos extraños sucesos se ve mezclado Dirk Pitt, incorregible hombre de acción y el gran héroe de las novelas de Cliye Cussler. Pítt sobrevive a un accidente aéreo, a las torturas rusas y a una travesía en bañera por el mar Caribe durante sus investigaciones.Clive Cussler, que ya obtuvo un gran éxito con Pánico en la Casa Blanca, nos ofrece en esta novela una nueva muestra de su arte narrativo, manteniendo en vilo al lector hasta la última página.

A FATAL OCEAN TREASURE HUNT . . .A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN ON A SECRET MISSION . . .AN INTERNATIONAL STANDOFF ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON . . .When DIRK PITT® intercepts a rogue blimp on a deadly course, authorities find four dead men aboard. None of them, however, is the wealthy American financier who set out aboard the antique airship on an ocean treasure hunt in the Bermuda Triangle. He and his crew have disappeared, and the dead men are discovered to be Soviet cosmonauts. Meanwhile, the President of the United States is informed that a covert group of U.S. industrialists successfully placed a secret colony on the moon nearly three decades previously. Now, a Soviet mission is poised to land on the moon, and what they find there may lead to nuclear war. Threatened in space, the Russians are about to strike a savage blow in Cuba. From the cold ocean depths to a Cuban torture chamber to the CIA headquarters at Langley, Pitt is racing to defuse an international conspiracy that threatens to shatter the earth.From Publishers WeeklyWritten in the bestselling style of Pacific Vortex! and Deep Six, and with the indestructible Dirk Pitt as its hero, this latest Cussler suspense caper features, and ingeniously connects, a maverick American colony on the Moon, a fabulous sunken treasure sought by an unscrupulous, blimp-owning financier, and two cunningly devised Soviet schemes, one to steal U.S. space secrets, the other to replace Fidel Castro with a Kremlin puppet, no matter what the cost in human lives. The nonstop action involves murder and torture as well as superpower politicking, and Pitt extricates himself from one desperate situation after another, even finding time for a little romance. The writing is brittle, but the reader is not likely to worry about that in a story whose plot resembles a box of exploding fireworks and poses some interesting questions regarding both Cuba and the militarization of space.

Ostatnie dni II wojny światowej. Do wybrzeży Stanów Zjednoczonych dopływa japoński okręt podwodny. Ale nie wypełnia powierzonego mu tajnego zadania. Zatopiony przez amerykański niszczyciel znika na dnie oceanu wraz ze swym ładunkiem…Rok 2007. Ktoś wie o misji sprzed sześćdziesięciu lat. I zamierza wykorzystać to, co przewoził japoński okręt, by przeprowadzić podstępny plan. Na jego drodze stoi jednak troje ludzi: piękna biolog, młody inżynier i ich ojciec, szef NUMA – Dirk Pitt.

A ghost ship drifts across the northern Pacific…A Soviet luxury liner burns like a funeral pyre…And the U.S. President's yacht is heading for disaster…Somewhere off the coast of Alaska, a sunken cargo poses a threat of unthinkable proportions. Potentially, the lost shipment of chemicals could destroy all life in the ocean — and perhaps the world — unless DIRK PITT® can find it first. But time is running out for the NUMA agent and his team. Pitt's main target is just one deadly component of a vast international conspiracy fueled by hijacking, bribery, and murder. And at the center of it all is a powerful Korean shipping empire with a chilling political agenda — to kidnap the President of the United States…

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 that part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA(r) 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 power, and an unimaginably audacious plan to extort the world's major nations. Their penalty for refusal? The destruction of their greatest cities.

A PLUNDERED TREASURE IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS . . . A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION IN THE PACIFIC . . . AN EVIL PLOT TO BRING THE WEST TO ITS KNEES!A Japanese cargo ship bound for the United States is instantly, thunderously vaporized by Japanese fanatics with a chilling plan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. While Washington bureaucrats scramble, a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from a secret island control center. But from the ocean depths, NUMA agent DIRK PITT® is igniting a daring counterattack. Battling death-dealing robots and a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors, Pitt alone controls the West’s secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave of destruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor!

Kurt Austin races to Antarctica to stop a chilling plot that imperils the entire planet in the latest novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of Adventure.

After a former NUMA colleague disappears while researching the icebergs of Antarctica, Kurt Austin and his assistant Joe Zavala embark for the freezing edge of the world to investigate. Even as they confront perilous waters and frigid temperatures, they are also are up against a terrifying man-made weapon--a fast-growing ice that could usher in a new Ice Age.

Pitted against a determined madman and a monstrous storm, Kurt and the NUMA team must unravel a Nazi-era plot in order to save the globe from a freeze that would bury it once and for all **

**Review**

“Gripping… This is another classic Cussler action thriller.” **\--** Publishers Weekly

“The pace never slows, and the villains are extra nasty in this entry that delivers what readers expect when they see Cussler's name on the cover. Cussler, who died in 2020, and frequent cowriter Brown convey marine biology's complexities in a way that makes it believable and understandable. Grab a comfy chair and plan to read all night.”--Library Journal

“The adrenaline junkie reader will love this and all Cussler’s books.”--Mystery and Scene

### About the Author

**Clive Cussler** was the author of more than seventy books in five bestselling series, including Dirk Pitt, NUMA Files, *Oregon* Files, Isaac Bell, and Sam and Remi Fargo. His life nearly paralleled that of his hero Dirk Pitt. Whether searching for lost aircraft or leading expeditions to find famous shipwrecks, he and his NUMA crew of volunteers discovered and surveyed more than seventy-five lost ships of historic significance, including the long-lost Confederate submarine *Hunley* , which was raised in 2000 with much publicity. Like Pitt, Cussler collected classic automobiles. His collection featured more than one hundred examples of custom coachwork. Cussler passed away in February 2020.

**Graham Brown** is the author of *Black Rain* and *Black Sun* , and the coauthor with Cussler of *Devil's Gate, The Storm, Zero Hour, Ghost Ship, The Pharaoh's Secret* , *Nighthawk* , *The Rising Sea* , and *Sea of Greed*. He is a pilot and an attorney.

In his novels Serpent and Blue Gold, #1 bestselling author Clive Cussler introduced a hero for the new millennium: Kurt Austin, the leader of NUMA's Special Assignment Team, and an instant hit with critics and fans. Tulsa World said, "As always, Cussler twists fact and fiction into a rope of tension that will leave you dangling until the last page." Now Kurt Austin returns to tackle his most dangerous mission to date… In the heart of the old Soviet Union, a mining tycoon is determined to overthrow the Russian government-distracting the U.S. with a man-made natural disaster using a notoriously unstable compound known as "fire ice." Detonation of this compound could create a tidal wave big enough to destroy a major city. But Kurt Austin and his Special Assignment Team are about to make a few waves of their own…

AN UNDERWATER GRAVEYARD IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST... A MYSTERIOUS SEAPORT IN THE LOUISIANA BAYOUS... A DIABOLICAL PLOT TO DESTROY AMERICA!When NUMA agent DIRK PITT® rescues a beautiful undercover agent in a daring underwater operation at Orion Lake, just north of Seattle, he confronts a sinister network run by Qin Shang, a ruthless smuggler who sells Chinese immigrants into slavery. Shang's campaign contributions have bought him a collection of powerful U.S. politicians, but Pitt is not a man to be subverted by politics. As he moves to probe Shang's mystifying seaport in the Louisiana bayous, his investigation involves him in an adrenaline-pumped race up the Mississippi River and a desperate dash to recover sunken Chinese treasures lost half a century before. And in Qin Shang, Pitt faces ones of his most formidable foes -- a madman bent on killing thousands of innocent civilians with a catastrophic surge of mass destruction.

The dazzling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series from the grand master of adventure.When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicted memories. Did he see an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain, Kurt doesn’t trust either version of his recollection.Determined to know the truth, he begins to search for answers, and soon finds himself descending into a shadowy world of state-sponsored cybercrime, and uncovering a pattern of vanishing scientists, suspicious accidents, and a web of human trafficking. With the help of Joe Zavala, he takes on the sinister organization at the heart of this web, facing off with them in locations ranging from Monaco to North Korea to the rugged coasts of Madagascar. But where he will ultimately end up¾even he could not begin to guess.

Juan Cabrillo en zijn samengeraapte bemanning aan boord van het spionageschip Oregon hebben in het verleden fortuin gemaakt door het uitvoeren van gevaarlijke opdrachten voor machtige westerse instanties. Maar de nieuwste klanten voor Cabrillo’s speciale diensten komen uit het oosten – het Verre Oosten. Het is een consortium van Japanse scheepsmagnaten, wier bron van inkomsten wordt bedreigd door piraten die de Aziatische wateren afstropen. Aanvankelijk waren de kleinere jachten slachtoffer, maar nu verdwijnen er gigantische koopvaardijschepen.