Clive Cussler, the author of sixteen consecutive "New York Times "bestsellers, unleashes a hero for the next millennium in an electrifying new series of unrelenting action and edge-of-your-seat thrills.When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater & Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent on carving a new nation out of the southwestern United States and Mexico, Halcon's scheme hinges on Nina's recent discovery involving Christopher Columbus, and a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity buried in the battered remains of the sunken Italian luxury liner "Andrea Doria." Only Kurt Austin and his crack NUMA team stand between Halcon and the "Andrea Doria's" silent steel hull -- and if their deadly mission fails, Halcon will ride to power on a wave of death and destruction.
Les Dossiers NUMA Séries
Plongez dans des aventures sous-marines palpitantes avec une équipe dévouée d'explorateurs marins. Chaque épisode entraîne les lecteurs dans des profondeurs inexplorées, à la découverte de mystères anciens et de trésors perdus cachés sous les vagues. Cette série combine magistralement action intense, intrigues historiques et technologie de pointe, captivant les amateurs d'aventure et des profondeurs marines.






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Blue Gold
- 403pages
- 15 heures de lecture
An investigation into the sudden deaths of rare whales sends National Underwater Marine Agency crew leader Kurt Austin to the Mexican coast, where he and his crew stumble upon a white goddess legend and an eco-extortionist set on controlling the world's fresh-water supply.
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Glace de feu
- 512pages
- 18 heures de lecture
Au cœur de l'ex-Union soviétique, Mikhail Razov, un milliardaire paranoïaque qui prétend descendre des Romanov, veut prendre le pouvoir dans son pays, malade de son économie, de la corruption et d'une misère endémique. Contrôlant dans les profondeurs océanes les gisements de " glace de feu " - du méthane à l'état solide, instable et explosif - et secondé par un moine charismatique, il entend redonner au pays sa " pureté d'origine " et mettre fin au style de vie occidental et matérialiste... Pour arriver à ses fins, il fait disparaître un sous-marin de l'US Navy, et menace de rayer de la carte une ville côtière du Maine. Au même moment, le vaisseau de recherche de la NUMA, l'Argo, se trouve en mer Noire dans l'attente d'une équipe de télévision. Mais l'heure n'est plus aux interviews : les journalistes sont traqués sur une île par des Cosaques à cheval. Ile qui se révèle bientôt être une base sous-marine, le repaire de Razov.
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White death
- 528pages
- 19 heures de lecture
Austin and a colleague, Joe Zavala, are forced to come to the rescue of a shipful of trapped men. As the two of them investigate further, they discover that something far more sinister is at work. When Austin's boat blows up and he barely survives, it seems certain that he is the next in line to die.
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Kurt Austin et l'archéologue Skye Labelle découvrent un corps dans un glacier, ce qui les plonge dans une enquête dangereuse. Ils suivent la piste de la famille Fauchard, impliquée dans des laboratoires secrets et des expériences avec un enzyme mystérieux, lié à un sous-marin de la NUMA disparu dans l'Atlantique.
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Tempète Polaire
- 512pages
- 18 heures de lecture
De faible ampleur, l’inversion polaire, un phénomène naturel, désoriente la faune marine et les oiseaux, paralyse les systèmes électriques. Mais si les éléments se déchaînent, elle peut déclencher un véritable cataclysme. En pleine Seconde Guerre mondiale, un excentrique génie hongrois, Lazlo Kovacs, découvre comment provoquer cette inversion des pôles à l'aide d'ondes électromagnétiques. On perd bientôt toute trace de l’homme et de ses travaux, jusqu'au jour où le leader d'un groupe altermondialiste essaie d'utiliser ses théories comme un avertissement aux puissants de ce monde. Or, une fois le processus en marche, plus rien ne peut l'arrêter. Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala et les autres membres des opérations spéciales de la NUMA vont devoir sillonner les océans et essuyer bien des tempêtes pour trouver un moyen de sauver le monde...
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Iraq, 2003- in the post-war looting of the treasures from Baghdad's antiquities museum, a legendary Phoenicean statue is stolen . . . Known as the Navigator, the statue points back to the days of King Solomon and is the vital clue to a secret of unimaginable power. Lucky then that UN investigator Carina Mechadi recovers it quickly. But a daring raid by helicopter in Iceberg Alley off Newfoundland and the statue is gone again - while Carina is only saved by the timely interventon of Kurt Austin of NUMA®. Now Austin and Carina are scouring the globe. Firstly, to track down the statue as it leaves a trail of murder and mayhem in its wake. And, secondly, to beat the thieves to the secret of the Navigator - for if it falls into the wrong hands, the world could be changed for ever. Jam-packed with thrilling chases and blistering excitement, The Navigator is a magnificent treasure trove of action and adventure. 'Cussler is hard to beat.' Daily Mail Find out more about the world of Clive Cussler by visiting clivecussler.co.uk
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1848, dans l'océan Pacifique. L'équipage du Princess commandé par le capitaine Horatio Dobbs est atteint par une maladie après avoir fait escale à Pohnpei. Sur une île inconnue, un médecin indigène les sauve de la mort. De nos jours, dans les îles de Micronésie, un laboratoire sous-marin, financé dans le plus grand secret par le gouvernement américain, disparaît. Il effectuait des recherches sur la «méduse bleue», une espèce rare. Au même moment, au large des Bermudes, une bathysphère est attaquée et immobilisée à plus de cinq cents mètres de profondeur... Kurt Austin engage l'équipe de la Numa. Il suspecte un lien avec une puissante organisation de criminels chinois qui mène des expériences médicales et aurait découvert un nouveau virus. Kurt Austin et Joe Zavala vont devoir tenter le tout pour le tout pour sauver non seulement leur vie mais celle de millions de personnes...
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Devil's gate
- 488pages
- 18 heures de lecture
"A weapon of unspeakable power... A madman holds the world
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A deadly, unstoppable force has just been unleashed on the world . . . In the middle of the Indian Ocean, a NUMA research vessel spots what the crew believe is a slick of oil. But as their boat sails into this liquid they quickly find that it is something far more deadly. In moments everyone aboard is killed, and only a flaming wreck is left. Quickly, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala of NUMA are dispatched to investigate. What they find on recovering the smoldering hulk leads them to the discovery of an audacious scheme to permanently alter the earth. It will kill millions - and it is already well underway. Who could be behind it, and why? Questions Austin and Zavala must answer if they are to somehow prevent murder on a global scale . . . 'Nobody does it better than Clive Cussler, nobody.' Stephen Coonts 'The guy I read.' Tom Clancy 'The Adventure King.' Sunday Express
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Zero Hour
- 425pages
- 15 heures de lecture
Zero Hour is the latest in a string of nerve-shredding NUMA Files novels from Clive Cussler. A burning helicopter crashes into Sydney Opera House and Kurt Austin is flung headlong into a race to avert global catastrophe . . . Attempting to save a man in a speedboat from a sniper swooping in by helicopter, Kurt Austin lands himself in trouble with the Australian secret service. Though he gives them their only clue - 'Tartarus', the last word of a dying man - Kurt is brusquely warned off. Intrigued and never one to ignore a mystery he is soon on the trail of a crazed scientist hellbent on unleashing a deadly destructive force: machines capable of triggering earthquakes. Now Austin must assemble the NUMA team. Their mission? To find and stop this madman before he tears the world apart. Clive Cussler, author of recent New York Times bestsellers The Tombs, Poseidon's Arrow and The Striker, brings us Zero Hour, the new adrenalin-soaked doomsday masterpiece in the NUMA Files series. Praise for Clive Cussler: 'Clive Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 'The guy I read' Tom Clancy 'The adventure king' Daily Express
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Ghost Ship
- 416pages
- 15 heures de lecture
Kurt Austin, head of the NUMA Special Assignments team, is no stranger to danger, either above or below the waves. With Joe Zavala at his side, he and his team have defended the USA against some horrifying threats. In this, the twelfth NUMA Files Adventure, Austin and his team must undertake their most dangerous mission yet, taking on enemies more deadly than those they have ever faced before.
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The pharaoh's secret
- 426pages
- 15 heures de lecture
The latest Kurt Austin action-packed NUMA Files Adventure novel from the UK No.1 bestseller Clive Cussler
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The world s most dazzling new technological advance may turn out to be mankind s last, unless the NUMA crew can beat the clock. The thrilling new NUMA Files novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling grand master of adventure. When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. Russia and China covet the radical technology, but the United States worries about a darker problem. They know what others don t that the X-37 is carrying a dangerous secret, a payload of exotic matter, extracted from the upper reaches of the atmosphere and stored at a temperature near absolute zero. As long as it remains frozen, the cargo is inert, but if it thaws, it will unleash a catastrophe of nearly unthinkable proportions.From the Galapagos Islands to the jungles of South America to an icy mountain lake many believe to be the birthplace of the Inca, the entire NUMA team will risk everything in an effort to avert disaster . . . but they may be caught in a race that no one can win."
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A global threat. The world's sea levels are rising at an alarming rate, too quickly to be caused by glacier melt. A risk so big it sends Kurt Austin, Zoe Zavala and the NUMA team rocketing around the world in search for answers. A desperate mission. Their hunt takes them from the shark-filled waters of Asia to the high-tech streets of Tokyo to a forbidden secret island, but it's in the East China Sea that a mysterious underwater mining operation is discovered. A devastating endgame. Kurt uncovers a plot more dangerous than they could have imagined: a plan to upset the Pacific balance of power, threatening the lives of millions. It falls to the NUMA team to risk everything to stop it and save the world from the coming catastrophe.
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The world's oil supply is vanishing, the stock market is plummeting, and the key to saving the future seems to be a baffling historical mystery. Can the NUMA crew crack it in time? Sea of Greed is the suspenseful new NUMA Files novels from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three oil rigs trying to revive a dying field, Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Projects Team are tapped by the President of the United States to find out what's gone wrong. The trail leads them to a brilliant billionaire in the alternative energy field. Her goal is the end of the oil age; her company has spent billions developing the worlds' most advanced fuel-cell systems. But is she an environmental hero...or a rogue genetic engineer? The NUMA crew discovers that the oil fields are infected with bacteria that are consuming the oil before it can be pumped out of the earth--a bacteria originally lost decades ago when two submarines vanished in the Mediterranean. With hired killers on his trail, can Kurt Austin locate a submarine that's remained hidden for more than fifty years? And even if he can, can the biological terror that's been unleashed be stopped?
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When Kurt Austin rescues the crew of a Scottish trawler, he finds himself trying to save them not once but twice. First, from the violent storm that dashes their vessel into jagged rocks and, second, from the deadly gunmen desperate to get their hands on its lost cargo of stolen Egyptian artefacts. Soon Kurt - with the assistance of resourceful MI5 agent Morgan Manning - is on the hunt for the source of these artefacts. It's a journey that takes them around the world and draws the fury of the mysterious Bloodstone group - an international network of murderous individuals who'll kill anyone in their way. But what do gunmen want with ancient loot? One thing is for sure, if Kurt is to find out he's going to be in the cross hairs of some ruthless and well-armed foes...
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Fast Ice
- 432pages
- 16 heures de lecture
Kurt Austin races to Antarctica to stop a chilling plot that imperils the entire planet in the latest novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of Adventure. In the early days of World War II, the infamous German Luftwaffe embark upon an expedition to Antarctica, hoping to set up a military base to support their goal of world domination. Though the military outpost never comes to fruition, what the Nazis find on the icy continent indeed proves dangerous...and will have implications far into the future. In the present day, Kurt Austin and his assistant Joe Zavala embark for the freezing edge of the world after a former NUMA colleague disappears in Antarctica. While there, they discover a photo of the Luftwaffe expedition of 1939, and are drawn into a decades-old conspiracy. Even as they confront perilous waters and frigid temperatures, they are also are up against a terrifying man-made weapon--a fast-growing ice that could usher in a new Ice Age. Pitted against a determined madman and a monstrous storm, Kurt and the NUMA team must unravel the Nazi-era plot in order to save the globe from a freeze that would bury it once and for all.










