This author crafts thrilling adventure novels, often drawing inspiration from historical maritime mysteries and legends. His stories are characterized by intricate plots and distinctive characters who immerse readers in worlds filled with suspense and action. He frequently places his protagonists in perilous situations, requiring them to combine courage, intellect, and teamwork to uncover hidden conspiracies and avert global disaster. His dynamic and engaging writing style has cemented his reputation as a master of the genre.
The story follows art historian Abi Vickers, who seeks solace in a Cape Cod cottage but stumbles upon a WWII secret hidden in an Edward Hopper sketch. This discovery triggers a series of perilous events, drawing her into a web of danger as she uncovers the truth behind the artwork. The narrative blends art, history, and suspense, highlighting the impact of the past on the present.
In "Medusa," deep-sea explorer Kurt Austin races against time to thwart a viral outbreak linked to a vanished U.S. lab in Micronesia. As he investigates, he uncovers a sinister plot involving medical experiments and a powerful Chinese crime syndicate. Austin and his team must save millions from a potential pandemic.
Years after an ancient Phoenician statue is stolen from the Baghdad museum, a series of murders sparks interest in the statue's relevance in Austin and Zavala, who lead the NUMA team on a historical investigation into the lost treasures of King Solomon. 650,000 first printing.
Leader of the NUMA Special Assignments team, Kurt Austin must work with a former KGB spy to save the United States from a lunatic with a generations-spanning grudge in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Kurt Austin is preparing for an interview while aboard a research vessel in the Black Sea. But his television spot suddenly becomes a rescue mission when the waiting film crew is attacked on a nearby island. With little information on the attackers, and no clue to their true agenda, Austin is forced to turn to an unlikely source: his old KGB Cold War adversary Vladimir Petrov. According to Petrov, the island is actually an old submarine base that’s been commandeered by clever mobster-turned-billionaire-businessman Mikhail Razov. Razov is certain he descends from the great Romanov family and he’s out to reclaim his rightful position as czar of Russia. With a powerful resource called “fire ice”, discovered by his mining company, Razov may just have the ammunition he needs to take over the modern world. To stop him, Austin will have to work with Petrov. And he’ll have to find out fast how much trust he can offer an old nemesis in this thrilling adventure that “goes down like a chilled Stolichnaya martini.” (Kirkus Reviews)
The NUMA crew, under Kurt Austin’s direction, take on a blood-thirsty family with a fortune built on crime, in what may be race to discover the very secret of ever-lasting life in this heart-bounding installment in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Kurt Austin is mid-mission when his new colleague, the stunning archeologist Skye Labelle, is called away to examine a mysterious 16th-century military helmet discovered in the possession of a very contemporary-looking corpse. Ms. Labelle’s research on the armor draws her into the sights of a ruthless black-widow with her own plans for the artifact. As danger creeps closer to Ms. Labelle, a scientist half-way across the globe is kidnapped. At the same time, experts working to harvest an enzyme discovered two thousand feet down in the North Atlantic, in an area known as “Lost City,” start turning up dead. Worlds apart in location and areas of expertise, they all have something in common. And it’s up to Kurt Austin, with the help of Joe Zavala and the NUMA Special Assignments Team, to put the pieces together if he’s going to keep his friend safe.
NUMA operative Kurt Austin takes on a madman fronting as an evironmentalist in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Sixty years ago, an eccentric Hungarian genius discovered how to artificially trigger such a shift in the polar ice caps, which could cause massive eruptions, earthquaks, and even climate changes. But then his work disappeared, or so it was thought. Now, the charismatic leader of an antiglobalization group plans to use it to give the world’s industrialized nations a small jolt, before reversing the shift back again. The only problem is, it cannot be reversed. Once it starts, there is nothing anyone can do. Austin, Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team must make strange alliances to protect this technology from being exploited by their new and power-hungry nemesis before the entire planet is made to pay. Rich with all the hair-raising action and endless imagination that have become Cussler’s hallmarks, Polar Shift is a wonderful thriller—indeed, “vintage Cussler.”
Austin and a colleague, Joe Zavala, are forced to come to the rescue of a shipful of trapped men. As the two of them investigate further, they discover that something far more sinister is at work. When Austin's boat blows up and he barely survives, it seems certain that he is the next in line to die.
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.
Planet Earth is a paradox - a lush, fertile world three-quarters-covered by water, yet in danger of running dry. Fresh water is disappearing from overuse and pollution and the only hope lies in desalination, a process to convert salt water into fresh. Francesca Carval is a brilliant scientist whose newest discovery will save the human race. She has perfected the process of desalination, and is flying to a conference in Rio to announce it to the world. Then a group of terrorists attempts to hijack her plane which crashes in the Venezuelan jungle. Francesca is taken in and protected by a native tribe: she is not heard from again. Ten years later, Kurt Austin and his NUMA team come across the mysterious death of a pod of grey whales off the coast of California. The path leads Austin to the heart of South America where he discovers Francesca, the 'white goddess' of the jungle, living among the tribe that took her in. At the same time Austin stumbles upon a group that aims to control the world's fresh water supply, and which will kill anyone who stands in its way. Racing from the open oceans off the United States to the deep jungles of Venezuela, Austin and the NUMA team engage in a thrilling new adventure with the future of the world at stake...
Plymouth, sur la côte Est des Etats-Unis. Vers minuit, un homme est assassiné dans le village des premiers colons du Nouveau Continent, arrivés sur le Mayflower au XVIle siècle. L'arme du crime, un tomahawk, est retrouvée dans la voiture de Joe Quint, un avocat qui milite activement pour la cause de son peuple. Pour un ami de Quint, trop d'indices l'accusent et il demande à Soc, pêcheur et ancien policier, d'éclaircir discrètement l'affaire. Celui-ci ne sait pas qu'en acceptant, il s'engage dans la plus subtile et complexe enquête de sa vie... Il va plonger dans l'univers des premiers habitants de l'Amérique et découvrir des luttes d'influence dont il ne soupçonnait pas l'existence. D'autant qu'il n'est pas le seul sur l'affaire : le FBI, un groupe d'Indiens mafieux et des trafiquants d'objets traditionnels sont aussi de la partie... On comprend vite que les Peaux Rouges et les Visages Pâles sont égaux devant une chose au moins : l'argent.
