18 books like Black Wind

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Valhalla Rising Clive Cussler · 2001 · ★ 4.3 · 543p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Marine explorer Dirk Pitt must rely on the nautical lore of Jules Verne to stop a ruthless oil baron with his sights set on political power in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series. In the middle of its maiden voyage, a luxury cruise ship using revolutionary new engines suddenly catches fire and sinks. Its alarms stay silent; its sprinkler system remains inactive. Nearby NUMA special… Shares: Dirk Pitt, Pitt, Adventure

The Mediterranean Caper Clive Cussler · 1973 · ★ 4.2 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Dirk Pitt rides a tidal wave of intrigue in this classic Cussler.On an isolated Greek island, a World War I fighter plane attacks a modern U.S. Air Force base--a mysterious saboteur preys on an American scientific expedition--and Dirk Pitt plays a deadly game of hunter and hunted with the elusive head of an international smuggling ring. Shares: Dirk Pitt, Pitt

Atlantis Found Clive Cussler · 1999 · ★ 4.0 · 539p · ≈ 17h · Moderate An Antarctic whaler stumbles across an aged wreck—her frozen crew guarding a priceless treasure. A team of anthropologists is buried under a mountain by a deliberate explosion. A ship that should have died fifty-six years ago reappears, and almost sinks a National Underwater and Marine Agency ship. Dirk Pitt knows that somehow these events are connected. His investigations lead to an ancient… Shares: Dirk Pitt, Pitt, Adventure fiction, Adventure

Arctic Drift Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler · 1716 · ★ 4.4 · 528p · ≈ 17h · Demanding A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war . . . NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here… Shares: Dirk Pitt, Pitt

Raise the Titanic! Clive Cussler · 1976 · ★ 4.4 · 446p · ≈ 14h · Moderate The Sicilian Project is the undercover plan of the decade. It is undoubtedly the best-kept secret since the atomic bomb. And it's the President's baby. If successful, it will create a defense network that will insure America's security from foreign attack for the foreseeable future. The sole hitch is that the project requires a quantity of Byzantium, an extremely rare element. In fact, it looks… Shares: Dirk Pitt, Pitt, Adventure

Treasure of Khan Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler · 2006 · ★ 4.3 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Genghis Khan the greatest conqueror of all time, who at his peak ruled an empire four times the size of Alexander the Great's, a vast expanse which stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. And now somebody wants it back. Dirk Pitt and the NUMA crew are about to come head to head with their most dangerous ever enemy. A mysterious Mongolian mogul harbors a dream of restoring the… Shares: Dirk Pitt, Pitt, Adventure fiction

Callander Square Anne Perry · 1980 · ★ 3.9 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Everyone on Callander Square has something to hide—but someone will kill to keep a secret When two dead infants are dug up in the Callander Square gardens, the upper-class residents dismiss the burials as the desperate act of a low-born girl and resent the intrusion of Inspector Thomas Pitt into their well-ordered lives. Pitt is not convinced that the case should be so easily dropped. Also… Shares: Dirk Pitt, Pitt

Trojan Odysey Clive Cussler · 2003 · ★ 3.8 · 485p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Long hailed as the grand master of adventure fiction, Clive Cussler has continued to astound with the intricate plotting and astonishing set pieces of his novels. Now, with a surprising twist, he gives us his most audacious work yet.In the final pages of Valhalla Rising, Dirk Pitt discovered, to his shock, that he had two grown children he had never known - twenty-three-year-old fraternal twins… Shares: Pitt, Adventure

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers Jules Verne · 1870 · ★ 3.9 · 338p · ≈ 11h · Challenging A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. Shares: Submarines, Adventure

Whirlwind James Clavell · 1986 · ★ 4.3 · 1229p · ≈ 40h · Challenging Tehran, Iran 1979: Simmering religious tensions finally explode, and the Iranian people rise up against the Shah. The country, once secular, is now thrown back into an orthodoxy that threatens to tear it apart. The United States and Russia go on high alert, with warships heading to the Middle East. The region becomes a powder keg, waiting to explode. Caught up in the revolution are a British… Shares: Adventure fiction, Adventure

Blue Hand Edgar Wallace · 1923 · ★ 4.1 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Jim Steele, a clerk for a prominent London attorney, has the distasteful task of assisting a notorious client, Digby Groat, who stands to inherit the Jonathan Danton fortune. Danton’s infant daughter and closest heir, Dorothy, was thought to have died in a boating accident twenty years ago. Adding to the mystery, Dorothy’s mother, Lady Mary Danton, also disappeared around the same time. Jim… Shares: Adventure

The House Without a Key Earl Derr Biggers · 2015 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Published in 1925, The House Without a Key introduces the kindly detective Charlie Chan, conceived by Earl Derr Biggers as a counter to the “Yellow Peril” stereotypes common in the era’s society. John Quincy Winterslip, having been sent by his family to convince his aunt to return to Boston, arrives in Honolulu to find that a rich family member with a shady past has been murdered. Detective… Shares: Adventure

The Emperor's candlesticks Baroness Emmuska Orczy · 1908 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Challenging The Emperor's Candlesticks (1899) is a historical novel by Baroness Orczy and was her first book as an author. Shares: Adventure

The Chase Clive Cussler · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate For decades, Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels filled with suspense, action, and sheer audacity. Now he does it again, in one of the wildest, most entertaining historical thrillers in years.April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three men who died forty-four years before. But it is not the… Shares: Adventure fiction, Adventure

Gentlemen of the Road Michael Chabon · 2007 · ★ 3.7 · 206p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, sprang from an early passion for the derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books. Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollicking spirit of legendary adventures--from The Arabian Nights to Alexandre Dumas to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories--in a… Shares: Adventure fiction, Adventure

Typhoon Fury Clive Cussler & Boyd Morrison · 2017 · ★ 4.3 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate As they hunt for a bunch of paintings worth a walloping half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew aboard the Oregon chance upon a much bigger problem. A Filipino rebel leader is not only using them to finance the insurgency but has discovered a drug developed yet never used by the Japanese during World War II that makes mega warriors of ordinary soldiers. Not so far-fetched given the… Shares: Adventure fiction, Adventure

Congo Michael Crichton · 1980 · ★ 3.6 · 324p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Congo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton, the fifth under his own name and the fifteenth overall. The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds and investigating the mysterious deaths of a previous expedition in the dense tropical rainforest of the Congo. Crichton calls Congo a lost world novel in the tradition founded by Henry Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines,… Shares: Adventure fiction, Adventure

Artemis Fowl. The Lost Colony Eoin Colfer · 2006 · ★ 4.2 · 385p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Thousands of years ago, fairies and humans fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear that they could not win, all of the fairies moved belowground -- except for the 8th Family, the demons. Rather than surrender, they used a magical time spell to take their colony out of time and into Limbo. There they have lived for decades, preparing to exact their violent… Shares: Adventure fiction, Adventure

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