Odessa Sea

Dirk Pitt returns in this brand-new thriller from the grand master of adventure, Clive CusslerThe new Dirk Pitt adventure from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling authorAs Director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, Dirk Pitt has always had a knack for finding trouble. This time, though, trouble has found him . . .On a NUMA mission to the Black Sea to locate the wreck of a lost Ottoman Empire ship, Pitt and his friend Al Giordino respond to an urgent Mayday from a nearby freighter. But by the time they reach the area there's no one left alive - just dead bodies and the smell of sulphur in the air. When a massive blast from the stern suddenly scuttles the ship, Pitt and Giordino are lucky not to add to the death toll.As they investigate the fate of the lost ship, they're plunged deep into an extraordinary series of discoveries.And when connections emerge between a desperate attempt in 1917 to preserve the wealth and power of the Romanov empire, a Cold War bomber lost with a deadly cargo, modern-day nuclear smugglers and a brilliant engineer developing cutting-edge drone technology, Pitt is face with the most dangerous challenge of his career. One that will threaten the lives of his family and friends.

“Cussler is hard to beat”

Daily Mail
Frightening and full of suspense . . . unquestionably entertaining' Daily Express
The adventure king Daily Express
Dirk Pitt is oceanography's answer to Indiana Jones. Exotic locations, ruthless villains, and many narrow escapes and derring-do. Cussler's fans come for swashbuckling [and] he delivers Associated Press
Nobody does it better . . . nobody! -- Stephen Coonts
Just about the best storyteller in the business New York Post

Clive Cussler (Author)Clive Cussler was the author and co-author of a great number of international bestsellers, including the famous Dirk Pitt adventures, such as Celtic Empire; the NUMA Files adventures, most recently Fast Ice; the Oregon Files, such as Marauder; the Isaac Bell historical thrillers, which began with The Chase; and the recent Fargo Adventures, which lastly included Wrath of Poseidon. Cussler died in 2020.Dirk Cussler (Author)Dirk Cussler, the son of Clive Cussler, has an MBA from Berkeley. He is the co-author of Crescent Dawn, Black Wind, Treasure of Khan, Arctic Drift, Poseidon's Arrow, Havana Storm, Odessa Sea, and Celtic Empire, and continued the Dirk Pitt series with The Devil's Sea.

An abandoned plane 1955, a four-engine Russian bomber enters a storm over the Black Sea and neither it nor its secret cargo are ever seen again. A sabotaged ship Present day, and Dirk Pitt is on a NUMA mission to locate a shipwreck in the Black Sea when he and his team respond to a freighter in distress. But when they get there the crew are dead and they narrowly escape going down with the scuttled ship. A ticking time bomb . . . Investigating what happened, Pitt and his partner Al Giordino stumble upon a gang of nuclear smugglers and a legacy from the days of the Romanovs. Soon it's a race against time to find and stop a nuclear weapon being used to start a world war . . . 'The Adventure King' Sunday Express 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

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