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2) Iceberg
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
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Just seventy-two hours ago, Dirk Pitt was lying in the hot California sun with a beautiful woman, a Scotch-rocks in one hand, but an urgent call from Admiral James Sandecker, his commander at the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), brings Pitt out of the warm Pacific breezes and straight into a North Atlantic deep freeze. The reason: the dis- covery of a long-missing luxury yacht, en route to a secret White House rendezvous, frozen solid...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 4
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Hero Dirk Pitt finds the "Titanic" in the midst of a search for a secret cache of byzanium, a rare radioactive element that could be the key to America's defense weaponry--but Russian obstacles could keep Pitt from both raising the legendary ship and protecting his country.
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Dirk Pitt volume 34
Pub. Date
1978
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 16
Description
An African terrorist group acquires two canisters containing a virulent organism and threatens to attack Washington, D.C.
5) Night probe!
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
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Dirk Pitt must descend to the bottom of the Hudson River to recover a copy of the secret North American Treaty signed in 1914, but Great Britain is racing to find and destroy the same document.
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Dirk Pitt volume 3
Pub. Date
1981, c1976
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The Titanic crashes into an iceberg. It contains a rare substance that could insure America's security from foreign attack forever in its hold and everyone wants it.
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Undersea adventurer Dirk Pitt faces the toughest challenge of his life when he plunges into a deadly sea zone to rescue the gigantic Starbuck, America's nuclear arsenal, while battling deep-sea assassins.
8) Deep six
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
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Dirk Pitt, a ladies' man and daring adventurer, is up against a sinister Asian shipping family and a Soviet plot to use the President of the United States for its own purposes through mind control.
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Dirk Pitt volume 7
Description
Dirk Pitt opposes the monstrous plan of the Soviets, in collusion with an Asian shipping family, to practice mind control on the U.S. President.
10) Cyclops
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 24
Description
LeBaron and his crew also vanish, in circu,stances that are at once puzzling and alarming and which lead a reluctant Dirk Pitt into one of the most extraordinary adventurees of his career - an adventure that leads him step by step, in constant danger, to the discovery of a secret base on the moon, a Soviet plot against Castro that endangers the peace of the world, and the unveiling of the treasure. The bizarre chain of events that begins with LeBaron's...
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Dirk Pitt volume 8
Pub. Date
c1986
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Dirk Pitt searches for a financial publisher and adventurer who vanishes while searching for the Cyclops, a sunken U.S. Navy collier containing treasure. Dirk discovers a secret base on the moon, a Soviet plot, and the treasure.
12) Treasure
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 9
Pub. Date
c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Description
In 391 a fanatical Christian emperor orders the destruction of the great library and museum at Alexandria. Secretly the most precious items are removed and hidden until 1991 when a UN plane is brought down in Greenland by a terrorist conspiracy and Dirk Pitt is caught up in a web of intrigue.
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 27
Description
In 1993, a Japanese auto carrier is destroyed by a nuclear explosion from an old American nuclear bomb.
14) Sahara, a novel
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 31
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It is 1995. Dirk Pitt, on a mission to find the remains of a Pharaoh's funeral barge buried in the bottom of the Nile, rescues an attractive young woman, Dr. Eva Rojas, a biochemist with the UN World Health Organization, from being murdered by thugs on a beach near Alexandria. As the race is on to save the world from environmental catastrophe Dirk Pitt and his friends plunge into darkest Africa, battling their way up the Niger to a huge, secret, hazardous...
15) Inca gold
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 12
Description
An action-filled chase through the Amazon jungle for 16th Century Spanish treasure. Joining in the pursuit are Dirk Pitt, the hero, his congresswoman girlfriend, the FBI, the Customs Service, archaeologists, a tribe of local Indians, smugglers and various thieves. There's plenty of treasure for everyone, the gold requiring 200 men just to lift
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Series
Dirk Pitt volume 6
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Dirk Pitt, the Special Projects Director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, becomes involved in a perilous mission when he is sent to find and salvage a deep-diving nuclear submarine that has inexplicably disappeared in the Pacific Ocean.
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
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A Luftwaffe ace, a Nazi war criminal, a beautiful and untrustworthy brunette, and a deadly billion-dollar cargo are the objects of a desperate search.
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Dirk Pitt volume 13
Pub. Date
c1996
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A deadly plague is killing dolphins and seals in the Weddell Sea and has now extended its reach to claim the lives of humans. Dirk Pitt, researcher with the National Underwater and Marine Agency must find the source of the plague and head off a disaster that will claim the lives of millions of people and animals.
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 30
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In 1856, a British clipper ship sinks after a storm while transporting convicts to an Australian penal colony. After horrible carnage on a raft, the pitiful survivors, among them Betsy Fletcher and Jess Dorsett, are washed up on a solitary island, where they discover an immense source of diamonds and found a powerful and welthy dynasty. One hundred forty years later, Maeve Fletcher, one of their descendants, is stranded on an island in Antarctica...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 14
Description
Dirk Pitt faces the most formidable foe of his career when he encounters billionaire shipping magnate Qin Shang who is obsessed with salvaging the Princess Dou Wan, a ship reportedly loaded with Chinese art treasures--including the bones of Peking Man.