why did we decide to compile the list of the best clive cussler books now? Well, the best-selling author behind the popular adventure novels starring Dirk Pitt died at the age of 88 earlier this week and we wanted to celebrate his legacy by highlighting some of his most notable books.
Clive Cussler, who began his writing career in 1965, introduced Dirk Pitt to the world in the mid-1970s with “The Mediterranean Caper” and featured him in 25 books over the years.
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The following is Cussler’s top 12 books list which includes Pitt but also books from his other series. The list was compiled based on input from our editorial team, as well as an online survey of Clive Cussler fans:
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12. the adventures of vin fiz (lacey & casey, #1). Ten-year-old twins Lacey and Casey are kind people who have always wanted to fly, but children can’t fly. . . or can? they can if they meet the mysterious sucoh sucop, a man who claims to have an enchanted box that can turn any toy into something real.
Before you know it, the twins, along with their lop-eared basset hound, floopy, are flying cross-country in a real-life wright brothers biplane they call vin fiz (after their favorite grape soda). by casey).
But dangers lurk everywhere, and if the twins are to make it to New York, their courage will have to make them heroes many times over. Thank goodness they have the magical vin fiz on their side!
11. valhalla uprising (dirk pitt #16). In the middle of her maiden voyage, a luxury cruise ship using revolutionary new engines suddenly catches fire and sinks. her alarms silence; the sprinkler system of it remains inactive. nearby numa director of special projects dirk pitt notices smoke and rushes to the rescue.
He’s too late to save the engineer behind the ship’s new technology, but he helps the man’s daughter, Kelly Egan, escape with her father’s work in a leather briefcase.
while mrs. As Egan struggles to uncover the hidden value of her father’s inventions, marine insurers hire Pitt to investigate the wreckage.
neither is prepared for the mechanical marvels they will soon be forced to face. The machines could only be the stuff of legends, described in the tales of Viking explorers or the tales of Jules Verne. And they may be Pitt and Egan’s only hope when an oil tycoon with a plan of his own appears on the scene.
Before the journey is over, Pitt will face off against a power-mad millionaire, step into territory previously known only to Verne’s illustrious Captain Nemo, and make shocking discoveries about his own past.
10. sahara (dirk pitt, #11). This is one of Clive Cussler’s books that has been adapted for the big screen. 1996, egypt. In search of treasure on the Nile, Dirk Pitt foils an assassination attempt on a beautiful U.N. scientist investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans to madness, cannibalism, and death.
The cause of the raging epidemic is suspected to be massive and unprecedented pollution that threatens to wipe out all life in the world’s seas. Equipped with an extraordinary state-of-the-art yacht, Pitt and his crew race to save the world from an environmental catastrophe, taking on a billionaire industrialist and a bloodthirsty tyrant from West Africa.
In the scorching desert, Pitt finds a slave-run gold mine and uncovers the truth behind two enduring mysteries: the fate of a Civil War battleship and its secret connection to Lincoln’s assassination, and the last flight. From a long-lost female pilot… now, amidst the burning quicksands of the Sahara, Dirk Pitt will make a desperate stand, in a battle the world cannot afford to lose.
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9. deep six (dirk pitt, #7). a deadly tide of poison flows into the ocean waters. A ghost ship drifts through the empty North Pacific. a luxury Soviet ocean liner burns in a funeral pyre. the presidential yacht sails into the potomac night and the president disappears without a trace.
dirk pitt faces off against a sinister asian maritime empire in an intercontinental duel of nerves. In his most dangerous and fast-paced adventure, he fights to save the US government and seize a desperate moment for revenge.
8. the Mediterranean caper (dirk pitt, #2). on a quiet Greek island, a u.s. The air force base has been attacked by a fighter plane from the first world war. . . a famous yellow albatross supposedly lost at sea in 1918.
Now it’s up to Dirk Pitt, Giordino and the rest of the Numa team to uncover the elusive truth behind the incident and discover how it’s linked to mysterious acts of sabotage against a scientific expedition, an international smuggling ring and a shaggy-haired beauty. Dark with some dangerous secrets.
The search for answers will take Pitt from a luxurious island villa, to a moving freighter strangely empty of crew, to a massive underwater cavern that houses the heart of a criminal operation that is larger and more elaborate than ever before. could have imagined. . . a lucrative operation that its mastermind would kill to protect.
7. lift the titanic! (dagger block, no. 4). On orders from the Pentagon, marine explorer Dirk Pitt must salvage crucial material from the world’s most infamous maritime disaster in this novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling series.
The president’s secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon based on an extremely rare radioactive element, and dirk pitt has followed a crooked path to a secret repository of the substance.
Now, competing against brutal storms, Soviet spies, and a ticking clock, Pitt begins his most exciting mission yet: raising the shipwreck of the century from its watery grave.
6. dragon (dirk pitt, #10). Japan, 1945: Two American bombers take off with atomic bombs. only one passes.
Pacific, 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the United States instantly and thunderously vaporizes, taking a Norwegian vessel with it. Japanese fanatics have developed a chilling plan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. From the depths of the ocean to the discovery of missing Nazi loot, Dirk Pitt is unraveling a savage conspiracy and igniting a daring counterattack.
As Washington bureaucrats battle it out, a brutal industrialist directs his blackmail scheme from a secret island control center. And Dirk, the fearless hero of the Sahara and Inca gold, faces deadly robots and a human hunter descended from samurai warriors. Only Pitt controls the secret ace up the West’s sleeve: a tidal wave of destruction waiting to be unleashed at the bottom of the ocean!
5. Inca gold (dirk pitt, #12). Nearly five centuries ago, a fleet of ships mysteriously landed on an island in an inland sea. there, an ancient Andean people hid a treasure of gold greater than that of any pharaoh, then they and their treasure disappeared into history, until now.
In 1998, in the Andes Mountains of Peru, Dirk Pitt dives into an ancient sacrificial pool and saves two American archaeologists from drowning. But his death-defying rescue is just the beginning, as he draws the intrepid pit into a vortex of darkness and danger, corruption and betrayal.
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A sinister crime syndicate has tracked down long-lost treasure worth nearly a billion dollars from the Andes to the banks of a hidden underground river flowing beneath a Mexican desert. Driven by fiery greed and ruthless bloodlust, the Syndicate races to seize the golden prize…and take down the one man who can stop them.
4. iceberg (dirk pitt, #3). another cussler favourite! the towering iceberg adrift in the north atlantic was a floating grave. Embedded in the great shimmering mass was a ship, sealed so solidly that not even its mast protruded. Here was a marine mystery to classify along with the Bermuda Triangle and the Marie Celeste.
But for Major Dirk Pitt, chief problem solver for the National Undersea and Marine Agency, it was also the first link in a fantastic chain of events that would bring him too close, too often, to violent death. and the discovery of the most sinister and bizarre conspiracy of the century… an iceberg.
3. the titanic secret. A century apart, Numa director Dirk Pitt and detective Isaac Bell team up to uncover the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time.
In the present day, pitt makes a daring rescue from inside an old-fashioned submersible in the waters of new york city. His subsequent reward is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell, a document that reopens a historical mystery…
in 1911 colorado, isaac bell is asked to investigate an unexplained tragedy at the angelito mine, in which nine people died. his perilous quest to solve the riddle leads to a larger puzzle centered around byzanium, a rare element with extraordinary powers and virtually priceless value. As he discovers that there are people who would do anything to control the substance, Isaac Bell will discover how far he will go to stop them.
2. treasure (dirk pitt, #9). graphics of lost gold… stunning art and rare volumes… maps of hidden oil and mineral deposits that could change the world’s balance of power. Now Dirk Pitt uncovers the secret trail of Alexandria’s treasures, a trail that plunges him into a brutal conspiracy for total world domination.
zealots threaten to overthrow the governments of egypt and mexico, exposing america to invasion and economic collapse. suddenly, from east to west, anarchists reach their deadly tentacles into the heart of the united states.
And Dirk Pitt, the hard-hitting hero of Clive Cussler’s best-selling Sahara and Inca Gold, takes on the most feared assassin known to man.
An international gang of terrorists is playing for world power on the high seas, and Pitt is the only man alive who can stop them!
1. peaceful vortex! (dagger wad, no. 1). This is by far Clive Cussler’s most popular book. Death-defying adventurer and deep-sea expert Dirk Pitt is put to the ultimate test when he plunges into the dangerous waters of the Pacific Vortex, a mist-shrouded area where dozens of ships have disappeared without a trace. /p>
The latest casualty is the impressive Starbuck supersubmarine, which carries America’s deep-diving nuclear arsenal. its loss poses an unthinkable threat to national defense. Pitt’s job is to find it and save it before international forces win or the sea explodes in a nuclear explosion, whichever comes first.
pitt’s mission also leads him into the arms of summer moran, the most staggeringly exotic and dangerous woman to ever walk into his life.
As the countdown turns to disaster, Pitt has no choice but to descend through the shark-infested depths to an ancient sunken island, from which he may never again see the light of day.
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