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
They who await no gifts from chance, conquer fate.
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...
I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.
Don’t give up on Jim Sandecker, said Gunn. He may have been blocked by the White House in securing the Roosevelt, but I’ll bet you a dinner with soft lights and music that he’ll come up with a replace...
A season with the herd and you’ll be riding like an arat, Noyon said, referring to the local horsemen. A season in that saddle and I’d be ready for traction, Giordino grumbled.
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...
Horsemen ignored both the right and the left flanks,
Girls.
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...
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...
Giordino looked at Pitt like he was crazy, then followed his gaze up the ravine. Overhead was a dark mass of rock buried beneath a thin layer of ice. Surveying the hillside, Giordino suddenly felt his...
Octagonal barrel flickered
Yes, I am aware of the enticements required to obtain them, Kang replied with distaste. I believe the Russians could teach the West a thing or two about capitalistic extortion.
When power is up for grabs, Pitt said, the first casualty is often liberty.
Take away the clothes of the greatest living man, his father once told him, and you behold a very embarrassed, naked and defenseless animal. Pitt
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...
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...
Giordino...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 and discover a beaut...