Deze spannende serie volgt een geheime groep die opereert vanuit een technologisch geavanceerd schip, vermomd als een wrak. Onder leiding van een charismatische kapitein en zijn team van huurlingen met een geweten, reizen ze de wereld rond. Ze bestrijden terroristen, criminele organisaties en andere bedreigingen die de mondiale stabiliteit in gevaar brengen. Elk avontuur vertelt een op zichzelf staand verhaal, maar is wel verbonden met de andere in de serie.
Juan Cabrillo skippers a disguised spy ship - for hire for covert missions. In this adventure he must find and seize a golden Buddha - the artifact and its contents are vital to striking a deal with the Russians and the Chinese and restoring the Dalai Lama to power in Tibet.
In het onherbergzame Groenland heeft de jonge wetenschapper John Ackerman een voorwerp opgegraven dat al een millennium lang verborgen zat in een grot – een 50.000 jaar oude meteoriet die radioactieve kracht bezit. Door die vondst komt Ackerman in het spervuur tussen twee groepen terroristen die de Heilige Steen opeisen. De ene groep bestaat uit moslims die een Russische kernbom hebben gestolen. Met behulp van de meteoriet kunnen ze elke stad in het Westen van de kaart vegen. De andere groep wordt geleid door een megalomane miljardair die uit is op de vernietiging van de islam. Juan Cabrillo en zijn spionageschip met hightechhuurlingen gaan de strijd aan om de steen te beschermen – en een uitbraak van de Derde Wereldoorlog te voorkomen...
The author of the bestselling NUMA and Dirk Pitt series returns with an all-new novel of adventure and intrigue featuring his unbeatable hero of the high seas-Juan Cabrillo. Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous living working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the Far East to ask for Cabrillo's special brand of assistance: a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia. Normally, such attacks on the high seas are limited to smaller ships and foreign-owned yachts-easy targets on the open ocean. Now, however, giant commercial freighters are disappearing. But when Cabrillo confronts the enemy, he learns that the pirates' predations hide a deadly international conspiracy-a scheme of death and slavery that Juan Cabrillo is going to blow out of the water.
1896: Four Englishmen flee for their lives across the merciless Kalahari Desert, carrying a stolen fortune in raw diamonds, and hunted by a fierce African tribe. The thieves manage to reach the waiting HMS Rove - only to die with their pursuers in a vicious storm that buries them all under tons of sand . . . The present day: Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenceless boat under fire off the African coast. Cabrillo takes action, saving the beautiful Sloane Macintyre - who's looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked in the same area on the open sea by giant metal snakes. What begins as a snake hunt leads Cabrillo on to the trail of a far more lethal quarry - a deranged militant and his followers who plan to unleash the devastating power of nature itself against all who oppose them. Clive Cussler, the Grandmaster of Adventure, shows once again that when it comes to page-turning action, he's the man to beat. Visit clivecussler.com.au for more Sign up to the Cussler Down Under e-newsletter
Juan Cabrillo is de kapitein van de Oregon, een hightech schip dat wordt bemand door voormalige militairen en spionnen en dat de ene na de andere gevaarlijke missie uitvoert. Na een geheime operatie tegen Iran in de Perzische Golf ontdekt de bemanning een stuurloos ronddrijvend cruiseschip, met honderden lijken aan dek. Terwijl Cabrillo aan boord gaat om uit te zoeken wat er is gebeurd, wordt het schip geteisterd door een aantal explosies. Op het nippertje weet hij zichzelf en de enige overlevende van het cruiseschip te redden...
Wanneer de Amerikaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken op weg naar Libië met een vliegtuig neerstort, huurt de CIA kapitein Juan Cabrillo in om haar op te sporen. De bemanning van het spionageschip de Oregon weet het vliegtuig te traceren, maar de minister is verdwenen. Een terroristisch meesterbrein heeft plannen die Cabrillo moet zien te verijdelen. Maar wat is het verband tussen een oorlog van tweehonderd jaar geleden en eeuwenoude perkamentrollen waar de Libiërs naar op zoek zijn?
7 december 1941 : vier broers doen op een klein eiland net buiten de kust voor Washington een buitengewone ontdekking. Alleen het nieuws over Pearl Harbor overschaduwt hun vondst. Heden : Cabrillo, op jacht naar een neergestorte satelliet in de Aregntijnse jungle, doet ook een schokkende ontdekking. Zijn poging het mysterie van zijn vondst te ontrafelen leidt hem naar dat kleine eiland bij Washington en nog veel verder terug, naar een eeuwenoude Chinese expeditie. Een vloek lijkt de tand des tijds te hebben doorstaan. Als Cabrillo’s team slaagt in hun missie, zal de beloning ongekend zijn. Maar als hun expeditie mislukt, wacht hen slechts de dood…
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country—from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie.” ― Upton Sinclair, The Jungle Upton’s Sinclair’s classic novel changed the American relationship with food and used its illumination of the horrors of the meat packing industry to indict the evil of American society.
In October 1943 a US destroyer vanished out of Philadelphia, the result of a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation. The story was considered a hoax - but Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon colleagues aren't convinced. Now, a new weapon is for sale - one linked to the inventor Nikola Tesla, who was working with the Navy when he died in 1943.
IT BEGINS IN FIRE AND DEATH In 1902 a volcanic eruption devastates the island of Martinique. Many die - including a scientist on the verge of an astonishing breakthrough. A DARK LEGACY IS REDISCOVERED One hundred years later one of the smartest men on the planet completes the scientist's work. Now in possession of a device that means no secret is safe, he sets out to bring the world to its knees. AND MUST BE DESTROYED But standing in his way are Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon. Now the man who knows everything faces the one man who will risk everything to stop him - but is it already too late? 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 'The Adventure King' Sunday Express 'Nobody does it better... nobody!' Stephen Coonts 'Just about the best storyteller in the business' New York Post 'Oceanography's answer to Indiana Jones. Exotic locations, ruthless villains, and many narrow escapes-Cussler's fans come for swashbuckling and he delivers' Associated Press
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation's accounts. To get the money back, Juan joins forces with an old friend from his days in the CIA so they can track down a rogue hacker and a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer. It is only after the hunt begins that the enormity of the plan comes into focus: the bank theft is just the first step in a plot that will result in the deaths of millions and bring the world's economies to a standstill. The catalyst for the scheme? A stunning document stolen during Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia. But two hundred years later, it may be the thing that brings Europe to its knees.
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon are about to sail into a perfect storm of danger. Their mission? To stop a new world war ... Hired to search for a collection of paintings worth half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo soon finds himself in much deeper waters when he discovers the vicious leader of a Filipino insurgency is using the paintings they seek to finance his attacks. Far worse, Salvadore Locsin has stumbled upon a deadly secret of World War II: a serum designed to create an army of super-warriors. With Locsin's plan threatening to engulf Asia in war, Oregon's crew must take on the rebel commander, a South African mercenary intent on taking the drug for himself, a swarm of torpedo drones targeting the US Navy, and a gathering megastorm. For Juan and his elite team, failure is not an option. An apocalyptic world war is on the horizon, and only they can stand in its way
Only Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon stand between two warring moguls and global havoc in this thrilling suspense novel in Clive Cussler's #1 New York Times bestselling series. Nearly two thousand years ago, an Eastern emperor charged a small group with safeguarding a body of knowledge and secrets powerful enough to change the history of mankind.They went down in legend as the Nine Unknown Men - and now two rival factions of the descendants are fighting a mighty battle. Both sides think they are saving the world, but one of them is willing to use horrifying means to accomplish its goals. Now it is up to Cabrillo and his team of expert operatives to stop both of them from the destructive path they're on, and save the earth from a dynasty of terror.
BE WITH JUAN CABRILLO AND THE OREGON AS THEY GO UP AGAINST THEIR TWIN NEMESES IN THIS BLISTERING NOVEL FROM ADVENTURE KING, CLIVE CUSSLER 'An all-out nonstop action thriller . . . the best one yet. The story hits the gas pedal and never taps the brakes' Mail Online The Oregon crew face their greatest threat - a ship as secretive and powerful as their own and an enemy from their captain's past every bit as wily and canny as Cabrillo himself . . . When the CIA realizes the identities of three American spies in Brazil have been compromised, they turn to Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon to rescue the agents. What seems like a routine operation turns out to be a trap designed by Juan Cabrillo's greatest enemy, seeking revenge. At the heart of the plot is a state-of-the-art ship that is identical to the Oregon: same weaponry, same technology, same ability to evade capture. But it doesn't have is Cabrillo and his talented crew - will they be enough to go up against the only ship that rivals their own? In this high-stakes high seas mission packed with page-turning intrigue and exhilarating suspense, Final Option proves once again that no one writes adventure like Cussler. __________ 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 'The Adventure King' Sunday Express 'Nobody does it better . . . nobody!' Stephen Coonts 'Just about the best storyteller in the business' New York Post
JOIN THE OREGON CREW IN THE RIP-ROARING NEW NOVEL FROM THE GRAND MASTER OF ADVENTURE, CLIVE CUSSLER A deadly venom. A ruthless terrorist. A billionaire's terrifying final wish . . .
