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When the going gets tough, I read Clive Cussler, for no one can spin a yarn thats so thoroughly spellbinding and entertaining as he can.Harold Coyle

ARCTIC DRIFT

Clive Cusslers previous Dirk Pitt novel, Treasure of Khan, satisfied readers appetites for action with a big fat juicy cheeseburger of a novel (Los Angeles Times). Now, Cussler once again brings to life the heroism and guts that have made Dirk Pitt a legend in the world of adventure....

A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming... a series of unexplained deaths in British Columbia... a rash of international incidents between the United States and a longtime ally that threatens to erupt into a shooting war. NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk, Jr., and Summer, know theres a connectionbut they also know they have very little time to find it.

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 that doomed mission. And if Pitt and his buddy Al Giordino arent careful, the very same fate may await them... and the world.

Cussler is a master at building suspense and tension.

Richmond-Times Dispatch

Dirk Pitt is a combination of James Bond and Jacques Cousteau.

New York Daily News

PRAISE FOR
CLIVE CUSSLER

Pure entertainment... as reliable as Pitts trusty Colt .45.

People

Pure Cussler, pure fun. The action just keeps accelerating.

The San Francisco Examiner

Full of action, intrigue, and beautiful women.

San Antonio Express-News

Nobody does it better than Clive Cussler. NOBODY!

Stephen Coonts

PRAISE FOR
CLIVE CUSSLERS DIRK PITTSERIES
TREASURE OF KHAN

Dirk Pitts nineteenth adventure... offers a plot as credible as it is monstrous, and the kind of exotic aquatic detail that amazes, informs, and entertains.

Publishers Weekly

The quality fans expect from a Clive Cussler novel is in abundance.

Library Journal

Fast-paced adventure fans of the long-running series will hungrily gobble this dish.

Booklist

BLACK WIND

[A] ripsnorting adventure thriller... Fans will revel in this action-packed yarn of land- and sea-based derring-do... Major entertainment.

Publishers Weekly

Harrowing encounters, close calls, daring exploits... another Cussler epic... Another win for NUMA.

Booklist

A father-son action thriller penned by a father-son team that more than maintains the supercharged Cusslerian danger.

Kirkus Reviews

TROJAN ODYSSEY

Continuous action, thrills galore, and lots of fun.

The Oklahoman

The story is an extravaganza, a blur of bravado and close calls above and below the waves... Impossible to resist... [A] wildly imaginative thriller.

New York Daily News

Just about the best storyteller in the business.

New York Post

VALHALLA RISING

[A] nonstop thriller... Cussler speeds and twists through the complex plot and hairbreadth escapes [with] the intensity and suspense of a NASCAR race.

Publishers Weekly

Action-filled adventure... great fun.

Library Journal

Clive Cussler... is at top form here.

Kirkus Reviews

PRAISE FOR
CLIVE CUSSLERS NUMASERIES

Marvelous... simply terrific fun.

Kirkus Reviews

You cant get much more satisfying.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer

A great story.

Tulsa World

Audacious and wildly entertaining.

New York Daily News

TITLES BY CLIVE CUSSLER

The Chase

DIRK PITT ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER

DIRK PITT ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER
AND DIRK CUSSLER

FARGO ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER
WITH GRANT BLACKWOOD

Spartan Gold

KURT AUSTIN ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER
WITH PAUL KEMPRECOS

OREGON FILES ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER

NONFICTION BY CLIVE CUSSLER AND CRAIG DIRGO
The Sea Hunters II
The Sea Hunters
Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed

CHILDRENS BOOKS BY CLIVE CUSSLER

The Adventures of Vin Fiz

In memory of Leigh Hunt.

And yes, there really was a Leigh Hunt.

A dear friend, bon vivant, wit, and madcap Don Juan who had a way with women that made him the envy of every man in town.

I killed him off in the prologues of ten Dirk Pitt books. He always wanted to play a bigger role in the stories but didnt complain because he enjoyed the fame.

So long, old pal, you are sorely missed.

PROLOGUE

PASSAGE TO DEATH

APRIL 1848
VICTORIA STRAIT
THE ARCTIC OCEAN

THE CRY RATTLED THROUGH THE SHIP LIKE THE howl of a wounded jungle beast, a mournful wail that sounded like a plea for death. The moan incited a second voice, and then a third, until a ghoulish chorus echoed through the darkness. When the morbid cries ran their course, a few moments of uneasy silence prevailed until the tortured soul initiated the sequence again. A few sequestered crewmen, those with their senses still intact, listened to the sounds while praying that their own death would arrive more easily.

In his cabin, Commander James Fitzjames listened as he squeezed a clump of silver rock in his hand. Holding the cold shiny mineral to his eye, he swore at its luster. Whatever the composite was, it seemed to have cursed his ship. Even before it had been brought aboard, the mineral carried with it an essence of death. Two crewmen in a whaleboat had fallen overboard while transporting the first sample rocks, quickly freezing to death in the icy Arctic waters. Another sailor had died in a knife fight, after trying to barter some of the rocks for tobacco with a demented carpenters mate. Now in the last few weeks, more than half his crew had gone slowly and inexorably mad. The winter confinement was no doubt to blame, he mused, but the rocks somehow played a role as well.

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