Clive Cussler
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon a remarkable discovery: the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, about their cities, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some people would do anything to possess them--the Fargos are about to find out.
42) The spy
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The Van Dorn Detective Agency assigns Isaac Bell, a private investigator, to a case that will reveal whether a brilliant American battleship gun designer's death was a suicide or murder, but Bell uncovers a plot set to destroy the great minds of America that are somehow connected to a secret project known as Hull 44.
43) Polar shift
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and their teammates on the NUMA Special Assignments team get caught up in the ambitions of an African dictator when they are sent in to investigate the scene on the Eastern Atlantic near Azores where a Japanese cargo ship inexplicably burst into flames and attempt to decipher what the incident has to do with the disappearance of a top scientist from Geneva.
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Legend has much to say about the area around the Solomon Island and the bay off the Guadalcanal coast-- gold, gemstones, advanced civilizations, giants, and the Fargos, the treasure-hunting married team, aim to find out the truth behind these legends.
46) The striker
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"It is 1902, and a bright, inexperienced young man named Isaac Bell, only two years out of his apprenticeship at the Van Dorn Detective Agency, has an urgent message for his boss. Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines, he is witness to a terrible accident that makes him think that something else is going on, that provocateurs are at work and bigger stakes are in play. Little does he know just how big they are. Given exactly...
47) The oracle
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 11
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In 533 A.D., the last Vandal ruler in North Africa consults an oracle on how to defeat the invading Byzantine army. The oracle tells the king that a high priestess cast a curse upon the Vandal Kingdom after a sacred scroll was stolen. In order to lift the curse, the scroll must be returned to its rightful home. But the kingdom falls before the scroll is found, leaving its location a great mystery. until a current day archaeological dig, funded by...
48) Odessa Sea
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A desperate attempt in 1917 to preserve the wealth and power of the Romanov Empire. A Cold War bomber lost with a deadly cargo. Mysterious deaths on the Black Sea linked to modern-day smugglers of nuclear materials. At the center of it all is Dirk Pitt and his team from NUMA. As the danger escalates, there's only one man who can avert catastrophe. From London to Washington, from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, the action never stops, as Pitt races...
Author
Series
Isaac Bell novel volume 9
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"It is 1906, and in New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special "Black Hand Squad," but the gangsters appear to be everywhere--so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators, criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassin--shooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long range--kills Bell's best witness, a brave and likable man. Then the shooter detonates a terrible explosion that sets the victim's independent...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous--a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure. The problem is, that...
56) The thief
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When a scientist he recently rescued from kidnappers is murdered, private investigator Isaac Bell discovers that a ruthless agent wants the scientist's secret new invention in order to exploit it to seize power for Germany.
57) Medusa
Author
Series
Publisher
Large Print Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
After an undersea lab conducting research on a rare jellyfish known as the blue medusa mysteriously disappears and a bathysphere harboring Joe Zavala is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless on the sea floor, Kurt Austin puts the NUMA team on the case.
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
There are many rumors about the bay off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Some say it was the site of the lost empire of the Solomon king and that great treasure lies beneath the waters. Others say terrible things happened here, atrocities and disappearances at the hands of cannibal giants, and those who venture there do not return. It is cursed. Which is exactly what attracts the attention of husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi...
59) The gangster
Author
Series
Isaac Bell novels volume 9
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1906 New York City, the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a spree: kidnapping, extortion, arson. Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special "Black Hand Squad," but the gangsters appear to be everywhere--so much so that Bell begins to wonder if there are imitators--criminals using the name for the terror effect. And then the murders begin, each one of a man more powerful than the last, and as Bell discovers,...
Author
Series
Kurt Austin adventures volume 13
Language
English
Description
When a power broker's scheme to build a new Egyptian empire requires his manipulation of a Saharan aquifer, Kurt and Joe race to learn the truth about an underworld plant extract at his disposal that may have the power to restore life to the dead.