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1) Odessa Sea
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Dirk Pitt, the director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is on the Black Sea, helping to locate a lost Ottoman shipwreck, when he responds to an urgent Mayday—“Under attack!”—from a nearby freighter. But when he and his colleague Al Giordino arrive, there is nobody there. Just dead bodies and a smell of sulfur in the air. As Pitt and Giordino explore, a blast from the stern scuttles the ship swiftly, almost taking them with it....
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 25
Language
English
Description
Doc Ford's old pal Carl Fitzpatrick has been chasing sunken wrecks most of his life, but now he's run afoul of the Florida Division of Historical Resources. Its director, Clive Nickelby, despises amateur archaeologists, which is bad enough, but now he and his young "assistant" have disappeared--along with Fitzpatrick's impounded cache of rare Spanish coins and the list of uncharted wreck sites Fitz spent decades putting together. Some of Fitz's own...
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventure volume 27
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
France, May 1940. As the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musee de l'Armee is ordered to take a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. But when he learns his intended ship has been sunk, the fate of his cargo must rest on a decrepit steamer, sailing out under German fire. . . Decades later, a diving expedition in the English Channel leads Director Dirk Pitt to a cache of uncut diamonds on...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ruthless Austrian entrepreneur Edward Bolcke has managed to steal a crucial component of the U.S. Navy's latest submarine technology--and he has found a way to hijack the world's supply of rare earth minerals. The three Pitts, along with longstanding sidekick Al Giordino, use their usual mix of brains and brawn to see that justice is served.
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1997, c1993
Language
English
Description
Doc Ford spies on a women in a boat; his uncle discovers the Fountain of Youth; the National Enquirer prints the story; and, the law comes after him while looking for three missing men.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that...
8) Night moves
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 20
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unsure if he or his friend Tomlinson was the target of a recent murder attempt, Doc Ford continues investigating a near-poisoning, a plane crash, and an explosion off Sanibel Island.
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 24
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Doc Ford has been involved in many strange cases. This may be one of the strangest. A legendary charter captain and guide named Tootsie Barlow has come to him, muttering about a curse. The members of his extended family have suffered a bizarre series of attacks, and Barlow is convinced it has something to do with a multiple murder in 1925, in which his family had a shameful part. Ford doesn't believe in curses, but as he and his friend Tomlinson begin...
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books / Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A picture book biography tells the story of Sylvia Earle's growing passion for the wonders of the sea and how her ocean exploration and advocacy have made her known around the world.
11) Crescent dawn
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
NUMA director Dirk Pitt searches for the connections among newly discovered Roman artifacts, the rise of a fundamentalist movement, and the existence of a mysterious long-lost "manifest," which, if discovered again, may change the history of the world.
12) The devil's sea
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In 1959, Tibetan monks succeed in getting the Nechung Idol, a large statue carved from a meteorite, onto a plane while under attack from invading Chinese Communist forces. The statue is of paramount importance to the Dalai Lama, who has just fled Tibet. In 2022, no one knows the idol's whereabouts, until Dirk Pitt Sr. and his children, twins Dirk Pitt Jr. and Summer, all of whom work for the National Underwater and Marine Agency, discover clues in...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-four-year-old marine biologist Kyra Winthrop remembers nothing about the diving accident that left her with a complex form of memory loss. With only brief flashes of the last few years of her life, her world has narrowed to a few close friendships on the island where she lives with her devoted husband, Jacob. But all is not what it seems. Kyra begins to have visions--or are they memories?--of a rocky marriage, broken promises, and cryptic...
14) Sea change
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
When a noted marine biologist drops dead in his bathroom shortly after documenting a group of disease-ravaged sea lions, oceangrapher Brock Garner is called in to shed some light on a deadly organism that's invading the Pacific Northwest region.
15) Sanibel Flats
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After ten years of living life on the edge, it was hard for Doc Ford to get that addiction to danger out of his system. But spending each day watching the sun melt into Dinkins Bay and the moon rise over the mangrove trees, cooking dinner for his beautiful neighbor, and dispensing advice to the locals over a cold beer lulled him into letting his guard down. Then Rafe Hollins appeared. How could he refuse his old friend's request--even if it would...
16) Deep blue
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 23
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Assigned to track down an American working for ISIS and make sure he never kills anyone again, Doc Ford finds the operation more complicated than he anticipated, especially when those complications follow him back to the small community of Dinkin's Bay.
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005, c2000
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years after a young girl unearths an ancient gold medallion and then mysteriously dies, Doc Ford investigates strange occurrences at the girl's home and concludes that a dangerous person is determined to find the medallion.
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
When Doc Ford investigates a tragedy that claims the life of his close friend, diver Janet Mueller, he uncovers dark rumors about the case involving everything from fraud to smuggling to murder.
19) The shark club
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
On a summer day on the Gulf of Mexico in 1988, two extraordinary things happen to Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel, the boy of her dreams. Then, she is attacked by a blacktip shark. Eighteen years later, Maeve is a world-traveling marine biologist studying and swimming with the very animals that once threatened her life. Maeve is fearless in the water, but on land is dogged by unresolved wounds and indecisive about the path her life...
20) Night vision
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 18
Language
English
Description
A lot is going on in the trailer park known as Little Guadalajara, inhabited principally by illegal laborers. The park manager is the hired gun of a financial syndicate that wants to develop the property, and he's prepared to do whatever it takes-but he can't figure out what to do about the teenage girl, the one the laborers believe has some sort of gift. When she witnesses him killing a man, though, and runs, there's nothing left to figure: He's...
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