R. K. van Spengen Book order (chronological)

"September 1858: An Antarctic whaler stumbles on an aged wreck, its grisly frozen crew guarding crates of odd antiquities - and a skull carved from black obsidian." "March 2001: A team of anthropologists gazes in awe at a wall of strange inscriptions, moments before a blast seals them deep within the Colorado rock.". "April 2001: A research ship manned by Dirk Pitt and members of the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency is set upon and nearly sunk by an impossibility - a vessel that should have died fifty-six years before.". "Pitt knows that somehow all these incidents are connected, and his investigations soon land him deep in an ancient mystery with very modern consequences, up against a diabolical enemy unlike any he has ever known, and racing to save not only his own life - but the future of the world itself."--BOOK JACKET.

Gennaio 1954. Un Boeing C-97 Stratocruiser decolla dalla base militare di Buckley Field, nel Colorado. Nome in codice: Vixen 03. Carico top secret: 36 micidiali bombe batteriologiche. Destinazione: Pacifico meridionale. Dopo poche ore di volo, l'aereo scompare nel nulla, durante una tormenta di neve. Dopo quattro mesi di ricerche la pratica del Vixen 03 viene archiviata e insabbiata. Settembre 1988. Dirk Pitt scopre il Vixen 03 sul fondo di un lago ghiacciato nel Colorado. Recupera il relitto e 34 bombe. Ne mancano due. Che fine hanno fatto? Che cosa succederebbe se un'organizzazione terroristica ci mettesse le mani sopra?In uno dei più bei romanzi di Clive Cussler tutto finirà per avere una spiegazione grazie alle inesauribili risorse di Dirk Pitt.

They have money, power and arrogance--and the world is theirs. Beautiful and unspoiled, Sara Coleville knows she can play their game. Now her fine-bred defiance and brazen masquerades have excited Marco Marcantoni--enflaming the hot-blooded duke's most shameles passions and wildest desires. He vows he will have her, in secrecy and seclusion--to use until all his needs are satisfied. But Sara's innocence is deceptive. And it is she who must ultimately prevail in this world where wealth makes love easy...and passion makes it dangerous.

Parce qu'elle s'est cruellement moquée de son neveu wui a tenté de se tuer, le séduisant Nicholas de Chantale est déterminé à retrouver la trop belle Mara pour le venger.