Clive Cussler, author of the bestselling Dirk Pitt novels including Arctic Drift and Trojan Odyssey, and co-author Jack Du Brul see hero Juan Cabrillo face pirates and international conspiracy in the third instalment of The Oregon Files adventures, Dark Watch.

A deadly band of pirates is terrorizing the waters of the Far East – and the crew of the Oregon may be the only people who can stop them…

Juan Cabrillo and his expert team on the Oregon are used to working dirty, dangerous jobs. While thwarting terrorist missiles, Cabrillo and the crew stumble on pirates in the seas of China – men who are more concerned with destroying ships with their Shock and Awe attacks than plundering their valuables. When the team grows desperate for all the information they can get, one of Juan’s best men risks everything to get closer to the truth.

Soon, the Oregon team will discover that the pirates are hiding a much more deadly power: an international conspiracy of slavery that will rock the very foundations of the world banks. Millions of dollars and thousands of lives are at stake – and Juan Cabrillo is their only hope…

‘Cussler is hard to beat’ Daily Mail

Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept millions of readers hooked with adventures at sea, exotic locations, cutting-edge science and page-turning pace for four decades. As well as the Oregon Files series there are also the NUMA Files, the Dirk Pitt stories (which started it all), the Isaac Bell adventures and the Fargo series. The other titles in the Oregon Files are: Golden Buddha, Scared Stone, Skeleton Coast, Plague Ship, Corsair, The Silent Sea and The Jungle and are all available in Penguin paperback.

Download and read the first few chapters of Dark Watch here