Clive Cussler’s The Heist

In summer 1914, a murder investigation leads Detective Isaac Bell to an explosive heist planned on the newly launched Federal Reserve System - a plot that will echo far into the future . . . 
 
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A MASTER THIEF 
 
AN ASSASSIN ACCOMPLICE 
 
THE MOST FIENDISH HEIST IN AMERICA’S HISTORY 
 
Washington D.C., 1914: President Woodrow Wilson is celebrating aboard his yacht, Mayflower, with the branch leaders of the newly created Federal Reserve. For Van Dorn agent, Detective Isaac Bell, few events could be duller. Until he notices the aeroplane flying dangerously low . . . 
 
Thwarting this aerial attack on the President and financial leaders, Bell soon learns that the strike was just the opening of an even deadlier gambit. It’s up to Bell to find the link between the attack, the mysterious death of a Newport heiress, and growing evidence of an unimaginably audacious heist: to steal a billion dollars from the country’s new and most secure banking system. 
 
Double-cross and betrayal are Bell’s stock and trade, but this time, the deeper he delves into the puzzle, the less he seems to understand. He is in a race against his most ruthless opponents yet, to prevent a financial panic that would bring the United States to its knees. 
 
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Praise for Clive Cussler: 
 
'The Adventure King' Sunday Express 
 
'Just about the best in the business' New York Post 
 
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

Jack Du Brul is the author of the Philip Mercer series, most recently The Lightning Stones, and is the coauthor with Cussler of the Oregon Files novels Dark Watch, Skeleton Coast, Plague Ship, Corsair, The Silent Sea, and The Jungle, and the Isaac Bell novels The Titanic Secret, The Saboteurs and The Sea Wolves. He lives in Virginia.

Summer, 1914. At a private meeting on Woodrow Wilson's presidential yacht, the President addresses the newly launched regional Federal Reserve banks, when the yacht comes under attack from a bi-wing airplane. It's up to Isaac Bell to shoot down the plane with a machine gun, saving everyone aboard. 
But the attack is only the first of his problems. 
While responding to a curious murder scene, Bell learns of a heist planned for the new federal currency printing and engraving building in D.C. Bell must track the thieves and the counterfeit currency before the new Federal Reserve system—and America's economy—is destroyed....

Isaac Bell #13

Clive Cussler's The Sea Wolves

Can one detective stop a war being lost just as it starts? 
 
August, 1914, the eve of WWI, and in New York the Van Dorn Detective Agency is supervising the loading of a final shipment of rifles bound for Britain. When Chief Investigator Isaac Bell discovers a hidden radio transmitter, he realises it will broadcast the exact location of the merchant ship to waiting German U-boats. 
 
This ship is saved ­- but two others have already departed. 
 
In a desperate race against time, Bell sets out to foil these acts of sabotage. Yet even if he succeeds, he knows he must hunt down the saboteur. Little does he realise that a sophisticated German spy ring is operating out of New York City's docks - and they've a secret that could determine the outcome of the war . . . 
 
Praise for Clive Cussler: 
 
'The Adventure King' Sunday Express 
 
'Just about the best in the business' New York Post 
 
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

August, 1914, the eve of WWI. When Chief Investigator Isaac Bell discovers a hidden radio transmitter in a shipment of rifles bound for Britain, he realises it will broadcast the exact location of the merchant ship to waiting German U-boats. 
 
This ship is saved ­- but two others have already departed. 
 
In a desperate race against time, Bell sets out to foil the sabotage, and hunt down the saboteur. Little does he realise that a sophisticated German spy ring is operating out of New York City's docks - and their secret could determine the outcome of the war...

Isaac Bell #12

The Saboteurs

Charismatic, handsome, and fiercely loyal, Isaac Bell is a no-nonsense private detective at the Von Dorn Detective Agency. Travelling all over early 20th century America in pursuit of justice for his clients, chasing down a steam train in a sports automobile is all in a day's work for Bell. And while he's on the trail of thieves, killers, and sometimes much worse, he'll have to use his every last wit to stay ahead of those he seeks, and to stay alive. . .

THE THRILLING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FEATURING DETECTIVE ISAAC BELL FROM THE GRAND MASTER OF ADVENTURE, CLIVE CUSSLER 
 
'The Adventure King' SUNDAY EXPRESS 
'Nobody does it better . . . nobody!' STEPHEN COONTS 
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With a burst of machine gun fire the assassins strike . . . 
 
When the Van Dorn Agency's top detective, Isaac Bell, thwarts a plot to kill a US Senator, the race is on to uncover who was behind it and what they hoped to gain. 
 
For Panama's Red Viper insurgency, the senator's death could have brought a welcome halt to the construction of the giant canal that threatens to divide their country. 
 
It looks like an open and shut case. But when Bell heads south to investigate it's clear something about it doesn't add up. 
 
With millions of dollars, the fates of two nations and the future of world trade at stake, Bell knows this is bigger than local trouble. 
 
He just doesn't know yet how big . . . 
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'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 
 
 'Just about the best storyteller in the business' New York Post

Nobody does it better . . . nobody!

Just about the best storyteller in the business

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. Jack du Brul (Author) Jack Du Brul is the author of the Philip Mercer series, most recently The Lightning Stones, and is the coauthor with Cussler of the Oregon Files novels Dark Watch, Skeleton Coast, Plague Ship, Corsair, The Silent Sea, and The Jungle, and the Isaac Bell novels The Titanic Secret, The Saboteurs and The Sea Wolves. He lives in Virginia.

When the Van Dorn Agency's top detective, Isaac Bell, thwarts a plot to kill a US Senator, the race is on to uncover who was behind it and what they hoped to gain. 
 
 For Panama's Red Viper insurgency, the senator's death could have brought a welcome halt to the construction of the giant canal that threatens to divide their country. 
 
 With millions of dollars, the fates of two nations and the future of world trade at stake, Bell knows this is bigger than local trouble. 
 
 He just doesn't know yet how big . . .

Isaac Bell #11

The Titanic Secret

ENTER THE LATEST ISAAC BELL ADVENTURE AS HE IS JOINED WITH DIRK PITT OVER A CENTURY APART TO DISCOVER A TRUTH LOST WITH THE TITANIC . . . 
 
'The Adventure King' SUNDAY EXPRESS 
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The Titanic's greatest secret is finally revealed . . . 
 
When Dirk Pitt raised the Titanic in search of a rare and valuable element, he never learned the disturbing true story of its origins. 
 
But upon receiving secret testimony from private detective Isaac Bell, he's taken back to the year 1911 and a tragedy at Colorado's Little Angel Mine. 
 
There, Isaac Bell is tasked with explaining the deaths of nine miners. But all is not as it seems and soon Bell finds himself on his way to Europe hunting for clues concerning a rare element of incalculable value. 
 
All while being pursued by dangerous men. 
 
Men who will do anything to get their hands on it . . . 
 
Isaac Bell must decide how far he'll go to stop them, it's a journey that can only end with the fateful first and final voyage of the Titanic itself. 
 
Praise for Clive Cussler 
 
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 
 
'Just about the best in the business' New York Post 
 
'Nobody does it better . . . nobody!' Stephen Coonts

The Titanic's greatest secret is finally revealed . . . 
 
When Dirk Pitt raised the Titanic in search of a rare and valuable element he never learned the disturbing true story of its origins. But upon receiving secret testimony from private detective Isaac Bell he's taken back to the year 1911 and a tragedy at Colorado's Little Angel Mine. 
 
There, Isaac Bell is tasked with explaining the deaths of nine miners. But all is not as it seems and soon Bell finds himself on his way to Europe hunting for clues concerning a rare element of incalculable value - and pursued by dangerous men who'll do anything to get their hands on it. 
 
It's a journey that can only end with the fateful first and final voyage of the Titanic itself . . .

Oregon Files #9

Mirage

From the outside, The Oregon is a rustling hunk of junk. But beneath the ships decaying exterior lurks a state-of-the-art vessel equipped with a uniquely effective array of weaponry. It's manned by the charismatic Juan Cabrillo, chair of the US government sponsored organisation 'The Corporation'. Aided by his crew of mercenaries, Cabrillo takes the Oregon on missions that the law can't handle, dealing justice to villains who threaten chaos on a global scale.

Mirage is the new heart-in-the-mouth adventure thriller in the Oregon Files from Clive Cussler. 
 
October 1943. A US Navy warship vanishes at sea off the coast of Philadelphia. Its disappearance was rumoured to have been a result of a classified military experiment into the effects of electromagnetic radiation. The story has long since been considered a hoax. 
 
But Juan Cabrillo and his colleagues aboard the top-secret spy ship Oregon aren't convinced. 
 
Now, a powerful new weapon is for sale - one linked to genius inventor Nikola Telsa, who was working with the Navy when he died in 1943. Was he responsible for the original Philadelphia experiment? Are his notes in the hands of his enemies? 
 
As Cabrillo and his crew race to unearth the truth they discover that stakes are dangerously high. And it may already be too late . . . 
 
Offering an irresistible combination of breakneck pace and audacious plotting that Clive Cussler has made his own, Mirage is state-of-the-art action-adventure. The ninth title in the Oregon Files series, it is preceded by The Jungle and The Silent Sea. 
 
Praise for Clive Cussler: 
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 
'The Adventure King' Sunday Express 
'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy

Frightening and full of suspense . . . unquestionably entertaining

All-action, narrow escapes and . . . unrelenting plot tension

With daring escapes, heart-stopping action, and last-minute victories, The Jungle is an action/adventure thriller reader's dream. The surprise ending will blow you away

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 great inventor Nikola Tesla, who was working with the Navy when he died in 1943. Was he responsible for the experiment? Are his notes in the hands of enemies? As Cabrillo races to unearth the truth, he discovers that the stakes are dangerously high - but it may already be too late...

Oregon Files #4

Skeleton Coast

Skeleton Coast is Clive Cussler's fourth Oregon Files adventure, featuring captain Juan Cabrillo. 
 
1896: HMS Rove vanishes in a shocking storm off the African coast. Aboard is a fortune in stolen diamonds... 
 
Present day: Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert super-ship Oregon have just escaped a double-cross on the Congo River when they come to the aid of Sloane Macintyre - looking for some long lost treasure. Sloane's story is strange and when Juan checks it out, he finds that there's much more than just diamonds at stake on the African coast. 
 
A deranged militant and his followers plan to unleash a devastating power that will kill millions and cause worldwide havoc. Soon the Oregon is steaming to the rescue - but some forces are so extreme that even a hero like Juan Cabrillo thinks twice before getting involved... 
 
The number-one bestseller Clive Cussler, author of the thrilling Dirk Pitt novels Crescent Dawn andAtlantis Found, and co-author Jack Du Brul tell a gripping story of treasure hunting and treachery in the fourth novel of the adventure series The Oregon Files. Skeleton Coast follows Sacred Stone and Dark Watch. 
 
Praise for Clive Cussler: 
 
'The guy I read' Tom Clancy 
 
Bestselling author Clive Cussler has kept readers on the edges of their seats for four decades with his thrilling action novels. 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, Sacred Stone, Dark Watch, Plague Ship, Corsair, The Silent Sea andThe Jungle and are all available in Penguin paperback.

Jack du Brul (Author) Jack Du Brul is the author of the Philip Mercer series, most recently The Lightning Stones, and is the coauthor with Cussler of the Oregon Files novels Dark Watch, Skeleton Coast, Plague Ship, Corsair, The Silent Sea, and The Jungle, and the Isaac Bell novels The Titanic Secret, The Saboteurs and The Sea Wolves. He lives in Virginia. 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.

1896: HMS Rove vanishes in a shocking storm off the African coast. Aboard is a fortune in stolen diamonds... 
 
Present day: Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert super-ship Oregon have just escaped a double-cross on the Congo River when they come to the aid of Sloane Macintyre - looking for some long lost treasure. Sloane's story is strange and when Juan checks it out, he finds that there's much more than just diamonds at stake on the African coast. 
 
A deranged militant and his followers plan to unleash a devastating power that will kill millions and cause worldwide havoc. Soon the Oregon is steaming to the rescue - but some forces are so extreme that even a hero like Juan Cabrillo thinks twice before getting involved...

Oregon Files #5

Plague Ship

Clive Cussler's fifth Oregon Files novel, Plague Ship, pits Juan Cabrillo against a deadly adversary. 
 
In a Norwegian glacier during World War Two a Nazi officer makes an extraordinary discovery - the most legendary ship of all time . . . 
 
Sixty years later Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon - a top secret state of the art military vessel disguised as a heap of junk - reap the terrible rewards of this find. In the Persian Gulf they encounter a cruise ship full of the dead and the dying. While attempting a rescue, the stricken liner erupts into a fireball. Cabrillo escapes with his life, and one survivor. 
 
When Cabrillo decides to probe deeper into this mystery, he finds a powerful cult obsessed with the end of the world. It is a discovery that sees the Oregon and her crew racing against time to prevent a sinister madman from using the secrets of the past to to destroy the future . . . 
 
Plague Ship is a high-stakes, high-seas adventure you won't be able to put down. The number-one bestseller Clive Cussler, author of the thrilling Dirk Pitt novels Arctic Drift andValhalla Rising, and co-author Jack Du Brul are back with their most exciting Juan Cabrillo assignment yet in the fifth novel of adventure series The Oregon Files, Plague Ship. 
 
 
Praise for Clive Cussler: 
 
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 
 
'The guy I read' Tom Clancy

In a Norwegian glacier during World War Two a Nazi officer makes an extraordinary discovery - the most legendary ship of all time . . . 
 
Sixty years later Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon - a top secret state of the art military vessel disguised as a heap of junk - reap the terrible rewards of this find. In the Persian Gulf they encounter a cruise ship full of the dead and the dying. While attempting a rescue, the stricken liner erupts into a fireball. Cabrillo escapes with his life, and one survivor. 
 
When Cabrillo decides to probe deeper into this mystery, he finds a powerful cult obsessed with the end of the world. It is a discovery that sees the Oregon and her crew racing against time to prevent a sinister madman from using the secrets of the past to to destroy the future . . .

Oregon Files #6

Corsair

Juan Cabrillo returns in Clive Cussler's Corsair, the sixth novel in the Oregon Files. 
 
Off the coast of Somalia a battered, old freighter is boarded by pirates whose sights are set on a hefty ransom . . 
 
But these pirates have made a mistake. For this rusting freighter is none other than Juan Cabrillo's secretive, state-of-the-art fighting ship Oregon. And Cabrillo is about to turn the tables on a deadly Somali pirate captain. 
 
One spectacular battle later and Cabrillo finds himself embroiled in an even tougher assignment. The US Secretary of State's plane has crashed on its way to a summit in Libya - and she is missing. Cabrillo is the only one who can find her. But his search quickly involves a lost ancient jewel and a murderous plot by terrorists intent on plunging the world into chaos ... 
 
The number-one bestseller Clive Cussler, author of the thrilling Dirk Pitt novels Arctic Drift and Treasure of Khan, and co-author Jack Du Brul pit hero Juan Cabrillo and his crew against pirates and terrorists in the sixth novel in the Oregon Files adventure series, Corsair. 
 
Praise for Clive Cussler: 
 
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

Off the coast of Somalia a battered, old freighter is boarded by pirates whose sights are set on a hefty ransom . . 
 
But these pirates have made a mistake. For this rusting freighter is none other than Juan Cabrillo's secretive, state-of-the-art fighting ship Oregon. And Cabrillo is about to turn the tables on a deadly Somali pirate captain. 
 
One spectacular battle later and Cabrillo finds himself embroiled in an even tougher assignment. The US Secretary of State's plane has crashed on its way to a summit in Libya - and she is missing. Cabrillo is the only one who can find her. But his search quickly involves a lost ancient jewel and a murderous plot by terrorists intent on plunging the world into chaos ...

Oregon Files #3

Dark Watch

Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew return in Clive Cussler's 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... 
 
Praise for Clive Cussler: 
 
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

Juan Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous living from working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the east-the Far East-to ask for Cabrillo's special brand of assistance. 
 
They are a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates, and their fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trawling 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. Cabrillo suspects that the pirates have joined forces to take down the bigger ships. But when the Oregon 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...

Oregon Files #8

The Jungle

Juan Cabrillo faces a global deadly threat in Clive Cussler's The Jungle. 
 
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon are up against their smartest foe yet - but in their midst there is a traitor . . . 
 
After losing their contract with the US government because of a daring raid too far, Cabrillo and his crew of mercenaries with a conscience are earning money the hard way: doing dirty, dangerous little jobs in the world's trouble spots. Now they've accepted a mission deep to find a missing adventurer deep in the jungles of Myanmar. 
 
But it is not long before Cabrillo and his team realise that they have been set up. 
 
Cabrillo - betrayed, tortured and played for a fool - is angry that he's been used as a pawn in someone's deadly scheme. But with the US nuclear launch codes up for grabs and a madman bent on using them to hold millions of lives to ransom, he hasn't time to worry about revenge. 
 
He's got to save the world first . . . 
 
The number-one bestseller Clive Cussler, author of the thrilling Dirk Pitt novels Treasure of Khan and Trojan Odyssey, and co-author Jack Du Brul tell a gripping story of adventure, treachery and betrayal in the eighth Oregon Files novel. The Jungle is preceded by Corsair and The Silent Sea. 
 
Praise for Clive Cussler: 
 
'Frightening and full of suspense . . . unquestionably entertaining' Daily Express 
 
'All-action, narrow escapes and the kind of unrelenting plot tension that has won Cussler hundreds of millions of fans worldwide' Observer

Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon are up against their smartest foe yet - but in their midst there is a traitor . . . 
 
After losing their contract with the US government because of a daring raid too far, Cabrillo and his crew of mercenaries with a conscience are earning money the hard way: doing dirty, dangerous little jobs in the world's trouble spots. Now they've accepted a mission deep in the jungles of Myanmar to find a missing adventurer. But it is not long before Cabrillo and his team realise that they have been set up. 
 
Cabrillo - betrayed, tortured and played for a fool - is angry that he's been used as a pawn in someone's deadly scheme. But with the US nuclear launch codes up for grabs and a madman bent on using them to hold millions of lives to ransom, he hasn't time to worry about revenge. 
 
He's got to save the world first . . .

Oregon Files #7

The Silent Sea

The Silent Sea is the gripping seventh novel in Clive Cussler's Oregon Files series. 
 
December, 1941. Four brothers investigate the secrets of a treasure pit on a small island in the Pacific. But a sudden death and the coming war allow its secrets to lie forgotten. . . 
 
Present day. Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon team have been sent to locate the remains of a crashed NASA satellite in the Argentine jungle. Coming under attack, they make a mysterious discovery which sends them to a small Pacific island. There, they will discover the deadly secrets of an ancient Chinese expedition - by the lost ship The Silent Sea. Now Cabrillo and his team are in a race against time to find the remains of The Silent Sea. Because there will be terrible consequences if someone else finds it first . . . 
 
The Silent Sea is a gripping, white- knuckle ride of a novel, and is Clive Cussler at his brilliant best. 
 
Praise for Clive Cussler: 
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 
'The guy I read' Tom Clancy

December, 1941. Four brothers investigate the secrets of a treasure pit on a small island in the Pacific. But a sudden death and the coming war allow its secrets to lie forgotten . . . 
 
Present day. Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon team have been sent to locate the remains of a crashed NASA satellite in the Argentine jungle. Coming under attack, they make a mysterious discovery which sends them to a small Pacific island. There, they will discover the deadly secrets of an ancient Chinese expedition - by the lost ship The Silent Sea. Now Cabrillo and his team are in a race against time to find the remains of The Silent Sea. Because there will be terrible consequences if someone else finds it first . . . 
 
The Silent Sea is a gripping, white- knuckle ride of a novel, and is Clive Cussler at his brilliant best.

Jack du Brul

Charismatic, handsome, and fiercely loyal, Isaac Bell is a no-nonsense private detective at the Van Dorn Detective Agency. Travelling all over early 20th century America in pursuit of justice for his clients, chasing down a steam train in a sports automobile is all in a day&rsquo;s work for Bell. And while he&rsquo;s on the trail of thieves, killers, and sometimes much worse, he&rsquo;ll have to use his every last wit to stay ahead of those he seeks, and to stay alive . . . 
 
Praise for Clive Cussler: 
 
'The Adventure King' Sunday Express 
 
'Just about the best in the business' New York Post 
 
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

Jack du Brul

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