The mission seems simple enough: extract a pharmaceutical magnate from Russian soil, a volatile man who holds the secret to a deadly bio-weapon. But nothing is as it appears to be. A conspiracy of world-shattering scope unravels as Tucker and Kane struggle to keep one move ahead of their deadly enemies. From the frozen steppes of Russia to the sun-blasted mountains of South Africa and Namibia, a biological threat millions of years in the making strikes out at the heart of America. All that stands in the way of a global apocalypse is one man and his dog. But can even Tucker and Kane thwart an ecological menace from the ancient past to save the world's future?
Grant Blackwood Knihy
- David Michaels
Grant Blackwood je americký spisovateľ trilerov a ghostwriter z Austinu v Minnesote. Napísal sériu Briggs Tanner. Je spoluautorom s Clive Cussler Spartan Gold, ktorý sa dostal na 10. miesto v rebríčku najpredávanejších beletrie v pevnej väzbe...







Some treasures are best left buried . . . Scuba diving off the Tanzanian coast, husband and wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo discover a huge ship's bell, covered in cryptic carvings. But as they struggle to first recover the bell and then decode its clues, they find they are not alone in wanting to discover it secrets When news of the find is publicized, Mexican President Quauhtli Garza is forced to act. He knows that this bell comes from a former Confederate ship that sank off the African coast and he fears that the discovery of a missing piece of a Quetzalcoatl statuette, which was aboard the ship, will undermine his plans for Mexico's future. With Garza determined to stop the Fargos investigation at all costs, the couple are drawn into a deadly conspiracy that connects the 1883 Krakatoa explosion with an attempt to resurrect the fallen Aztec empire . . . 'Clive Cussler is hard to beat'Daily Mail 'The guy I read'Tom Clancy
War Hawk
- 384 stránok
- 14 hodin čítania
A Former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his war dog Kane are thrust into a global conspiracy that threatens to shake the foundations of American democracy in this second exciting Sigma Force spinoff adventure from New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Grant Blackwood. Tucker Wayne's past and his present collide when a former army colleague comes to him for help. She's on the run from brutal assassins hunting her and her son. To keep them safe, Tucker must discover who killed a brilliant young idealist - a crime that leads back to the most powerful figures in the U.S. government. From the haunted ruins of a plantation in the deep South to the beachheads of a savage civil war in Trinidad, Tucker and Kane must discover the truth behind a mystery that leads back to World War II, to a true event that is even now changing the world . . . and will redefine what it means to be human. With no one to trust, they will be forced to break the law, expose national secrets, and risk everything to stop a madman determined to control the future of modern warfare for his own diabolical ends. But can Tucker and Kane withstand a force so indomitable that it threatens our very future?
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda
- 336 stránok
- 12 hodin čítania
As part of a top-secret initiative called Third Echelon, National Security Agency special operative Sam Fisher has been given license to spy, steal, destroy, and assassinate to protect America. And he does...
Treasure
- 547 stránok
- 20 hodin čítania
Dirk Pitt's hunt for ancient Egyptian treasure sis sidetracked when the White House is threatened by terrorists from Egypt and Mexico and a cruise ship carrying the presidents of Egypt and Mexico is hijacked.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Checkmate
- 416 stránok
- 15 hodin čítania
HE OPERATES OUTSIDE OF EVERY LAW ... AND KILLS IN THE LINE OF DUTY.Few know he exists. But when millions of American lives are at stake, Third Echelon special operative Sam Fisher is the man to depend on. He handles covert missions either too sensitive or too risky for even the CIA or FBI. And he operates alone.Fisher is called off of a training exercise to intercept a cargo freighter loaded down with radioactive material and heading straight for the U.S. coast. He has minutes to disable the ship-or die trying. While he races to beat the clock, another attack has hit its target. As the residents of a small town in New Mexico start dying of radiation poisoning, Fisher weaves through a tangled web of clues to find the mastermind behind the strikes: one of the greatest enemies of the free world ...All in a days work for a Splinter Cell®.
The husband-and-wife team of Sam and Remi Fargo are used to hunting for treasure, but they aren't used to hunting for people - until an investigator friend of theirs goes missing, and they promise to search for him. What they find, however, will be beyond anything they could have imagined. On a journey that will take them to Tibet, Nepal, China, Venice, and Siberia, the Fargos will find themselves embroiled with black market fossils, an ancient Tibetan kingdom, a lost landmass in the North Sea, stone-age ostrich egg shards inscribed in a cryptic language, a pair of battles separated by thousands of miles and hundreds of years...... and a skeleton that could just turn the history of human evolution on its head. Praise for Clive Cussler 'Clive Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 'The guy I read' Tom Clancy 'Unquestionably entertaining' Daily Express 'Delivers what it promises' Financial Times Visit www.clivecussler.com.au for more Sign up to the Cussler Down Under e-newsletter
For the first time ever, Tom Clancy's greatest characters come together in one electrifying thriller. For years, Jack Ryan, Jr., and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten Western civilization. The most dangerous of these is the Emir. This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the West and has eluded capture by the world's law enforcement agencies. Now the Campus is on his trail. Joined by their latest recruits, John Clark and Ding Chavez, Jack Ryan, Jr., and his cousins, Dominick and Brian Caruso, are determined to catch the Emir, and they will bring him in ... dead or alive.
Tom Clancy´s Duty and Honour
- 392 stránok
- 14 hodin čítania
**'Exhilarating. No other novelist is giving so full a picture of modern conflict' Sunday Times** Someone wants Jack Ryan Dead - and fast... Covert operative Jack Ryan Jr is enjoying some well-earned R&R when an attempt is made on his life. He survives, only to learn that another attempt on his life is imminent. Having barely survived the first time, Jack sets out to find out who wants him dead, and why... Using clues left by his would-be assassin, Jack follows a trail that leads through France and Switzerland to Rostock, a shadowy security firm based in Germany. Jack knows its head, Jurgen Rostock, from a previous operation - one that has apparently drawn the man's fury. Without the resources of The Campus - the elite agency from which he is on a leave-of-absence - but with the help of an investigative journalist, Jack embarks on his own secret campaign to uncover the truth about Rostock. And what he finds is that they are up to something both big and very, very bad. But what can one man do against all Rostock's might? The world is about to find out.
Per rispondere alle crescenti minacce alla sicurezza degli Stati Uniti, l'Agenzia per la Sicurezza Nazionale ha istituito una nuova organizzazione supersegreta, Third Echelon, specializzata nella raccolta di informazioni. I suoi agenti sul campo sono abilissimi, invisibili, micidiali. Operano in assoluta solitudine e hanno licenza di spiare, rubare, distruggere, assassinare. Ma se dovessero cadere in mani nemiche, nessuno muoverà un dito per salvarli. Sam Fisher è uno di loro, il migliore. In un crescendo di tensione e colpi di scena, Fisher deve scontrarsi con un'organizzazione terroristica ancor più pericolosa di Al Qaeda e con un micidiale cartello di trafficanti d'armi...



