The chase af Clive Cussler (Bog)

USA's regering beslutter i 1906 at sætte et detektivbureau på sagen om en morderisk bankrøver, der huserer i Vestens minebyer Titel: Jagten Genre: thriller_spaending Sammendrag: I USA omkring år 1906 hærger en brutal bankrøver, der slår til i Vestens minebyer og forsvinder sporløst efter sine røverier. Regeringen beslutter at engagere et særligt detektivbureau til at opspore og stoppe forbryderen. Efterforskningen trækker tråde til tog- og bankverdenen, nye transportmidler og den vilde udvikling i den amerikanske vesten. Handlingen følger jagten på den undvigende forbryder gennem dramatiske opgør, forfølgelsesscener og farlige missioner, hvor både teknologi, strategi og psykologisk spil bliver afgørende for udfaldet. Type: Hardcover

A Novel from the NUMA Files When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater & Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent on carving a new nation out of the southwestern United States and Mexico, Halcon's scheme hinges on Nina's recent discovery involving Christopher Columbus, and a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity buried in the battered remains of the sunken Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria. Only Kurt Austin and his crack NUMA team stand between Halcon and the Andrea Doria's silent steel hull - and if their deadly mission fails, Halcon will ride to power on a wave of death and destruction. Udgivelsesår: 1999 Sider: 474 Sprog: Engelsk

Cussler's most dazzling bestseller.Dirk Pitt's most dangerous adventure. Dirk Pitt proved invincible in "Raise the Titanic!" Now, with the future of virtually every person in the world at stake, he is enlisted to spearhead his most daring mission yet--the rescue of a vital document for the United States. To an energy-starved, economically devastated America, possession of this document is worth billions. But to Great Britain, it's worth a war. Pitt's quest plunges him into a head-to-head confrontation with Britian's most cunning secret agent--and into the throes of a torrid love triangle. As time runs out for a desperate America, Dirk Pitt races toward an underwater clash more terrifying than anything Clive Cussler has ever created--the breathtaking climax of Night Probe!"" Forlag: Sphere Udgivelsesår: 1981 Sider: 372 Sprog: Engelsk

A Novel from the NUMA Files The hero of SERPENT and BLUE GOLD confronts a deadly global plot, in the breathtaking new Kurt Austin adventure.Austin, leader of NUMA's Special Assignment Team, faces a new menace, in the form of a mining tycoon who has proclaimed himself Czar of Russia. Claiming Romanov ancestry and backed by billions of dollars, he is determined to overthrow the already-shaky Russian goverment - and US opposition doesn't bother him one bit. Forlag: Penguin Udgivelsesår: 2002 Sider: 434 Sprog: Engelsk

Dirk Pitt er lige ved at blive dræbt, da han redder en gruppe mennesker, der arbejder med at kortlægge olieforekomster i Rusland. Da Pitt undersøger sagen nærmere, støder han på en mystisk mogul, som gemmer på en mørk hemmelighed om Djengis Khan - en hemmelighed som kan hjælpe mogulen til at genopbygge Djengis Khans mægtige rige Forlag: Penguin books Udgivelsesår: 2007 Sider: 685 Sprog: Engelsk

Et dansk krydserskib synker efter en konfrontation med yderligtgående miljøforkæmpere og Kurt Austin og hans kollega får til opgave at redde besætningen, men de opdager snart at der ikke er tale om et enkeltstående tilfælde Forlag: Penguin Udgivelsesår: 2004 Sider: 508 Sprog: Engelsk

Thriller Forlag: Penguin Udgivelsesår: 2009 Sider: 552 Sprog: Engelsk

1896: Four Englishmen flee for their lives across the merciless Kalahari Desert, carrying a stolen fortune in raw diamonds, and hunted by a fierce African tribe. The thieves manage to reach the waiting HMS Rove - only to die with their pursuers in a vicious storm that buries them all under tons of sand . . . The present day: Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenceless boat under fire off the African coast. Cabrillo takes action, saving the beautiful Sloane Macintyre - who's looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked in the same area on the open sea by giant metal snakes. What begins as a snake hunt leads Cabrillo on to the trail of a far more lethal qua