We’ve been through all this a thousand times. I won’t subject myself to the indignities of pregnancy. I won’t swish crap-laden diapers around in a toilet bowl ten times a day. Let someone else populat...
Hitting the first molecules of the upper atmosphere created friction that merely warmed the rod. The lower it fell, the more the heat built, until the entire length of the rod glowed red then yellow,...
In this century wars will not be fought over oil, as in the past, but over water. The situation is becoming desperate. The world's water is strained by population growth. There is no more fresh water...
A young woman sat on the step in front of him, fiddling with the heel of a strappy shoe. She wore a white cocktail dress with a
It is now clear to me that behind a façade of amiable bumbling, you are extremely well informed about your fellow spies. In fact, I suspect you know more about them than the ships you’re supposed to b...
Urquhart could somehow feel the glow on his skin as the hairs on his arms raised up and the thick pelt of man fur that covered his torso and back prickled as if the legs of a thousand insects were cra...
I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.
Josh Thomas was sitting in Egan’s study, reading a chemical analysis journal, when he froze in fright. The rug in the center of the room suddenly rose from the floor as if a ghost were inside and then...
Giordino, on the other hand, simply sighed in resignation. Who else, he asked no one in particular, but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic an...
Girls.
When power is up for grabs, Pitt said, the first casualty is often liberty.
And chicken, grits with shrimp and crab, a southern coleslaw
However, he hadn’t been this close to an agent from the MSS, China’s intelligence organization, since his CIA cover had been blown and he was forced to escape back to the United States. As a wanted fu...
Two unarmed men against six loaded for bear. We need to even the odds. Got a plan? asked Giordino. I certainly do. Giordino gave the little man with the academic, nerdy look a bemused stare. Is it evi...
There are rattlesnakes around here. His partner grinned in the dark. Juan, that would be the least of our problems. A minute later, the handheld radio on his belt chirped with two static transmissions...
O’Connor packed up
The captain moniker derived from a tired blue hat he wore on his head. It was the classic captain’s hat favored by rich yachtsmen, sporting crossed gold anchors on its prow. Dahlgren’s hat, however, l...
Readers, A few years ago, while I was writing Flood Tide, I realized that Dirk Pitt needed some help on a particular assignment, and so I dreamed up Juan Cabrillo. Cabrillo ran a ship called the Orego...
Take away the clothes of the greatest living man, his father once told him, and you behold a very embarrassed, naked and defenseless animal.
If his submarine were caught on the surface in broad daylight, the mission to free Napoleon Bonaparte from exile would be over before it began. Delacroix lowered his spyglass and called down through t...
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