Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and members of the NUMA Special Assignments Team are called in to investigate after ships are destroyed near the Azores and they find themselves entangled in the ambitions of an African dictator who may have developed a weapon with extraordinary power.

In his attempt to rescue archeologists from a Peruvian mountaintop, Dirk Pitt becomes involved in a vicious struggle with art thieves, local Indians, the FBI, and U.S. customs agents.

During WW2 a Nazi officer discovers a legendary ship. Sixty years later Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon - a state-of-the-art military vessel disguised as a total wreck - reap the terrible rewards of this find. They encounter a cruise ship full of dead and dying, and as Cabrillo attempts a rescue, the liner erupts into a fireball. As Cabrillo probes deeper into this mystery he finds a cult obsessed with the end of the world. This discovery...

Kurt Austin and the other members of the NUMA Special Assignment Team are called to investigate a ship that had been devoured by a mysterious substance in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

When Dirk Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team, it appears a simple act of nature. But when the survey team is abducted and Pitt's research vessel nearly sunk, however, it's obvious there's something more sinister involved. All trails lead to Mongolia where a mysterious mogul is conducting covert deals for supplying oil to the Chinese while wreaking havoc on global oil markets utilizing a secret technology. The Mongolian harbors a dream...

Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known as the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. Their first victim is a crooked antiquities dealer, murdered in cold blood. Their second very nearly is a UN investigator who, were it not for the timely assistance of Austin and Zavala, would now be at the bottom of a watery grave.

Dirk Pitt is in the middle of an international crisis involving dead Soviet cosmonauts, a covert group of U.S. industrialists and a secret lunar colony.