Adventure Stories

The pioneers of Rhodesia have staked their claims and stocked their farms on African soil they have carving as their own. But the Matabele indunas are preparing for a bloody rebellion which will scar their opponents forever.

A tale of life on board the cargo liner Antigone during the last great days of the Merchant Navy as seen through the eyes of Laddie on a long voyage from England to Hong Kong, Singapore and the South China Sea.

A terrifying discovery. A cutting-edge weapon. A life-or-death showdown in the skies . . . A distress call from a nearby freighter in the Caribbean brings a NUMA training mission to an abrupt halt. Leaping into action, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala locate the damaged vessel, where they make an eerie discovery. The captain lies face down in the silent starboard bridge. Clutched beneath him - an empty shotgun.

When Kurt and Joe search the freighter for clues, the situation grows stranger - and more dangerous. Lying hidden in wait are the rest of the crew: paranoid, disoriented and ready to fight.
Could a mind-altering sickness have struck down an entire ship? Or is something much more sinister going on? Following the crew's tale of mysterious lights leads Kurt and Joe to a cadre of Cuban mercenaries, and when they learn of their plan to use magnificent modern airships to hijack a nuclear submarine, this impromptu mission moves from the seas to the skies. Faced with an irrepressible enemy and a new arena of fighting, stopping this plot could be the NUMA crew's toughest task yet...

The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate. Continued in PART II (10426)

Sequel to PART I (10425) The continuing story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate.

For Dirk Pitt, the witnessing of an airship disaster sets in motion the most nail-biting events of his career. When he finds his trail leading to fabulous treasure beneath the sea he knows he is on to something special. Or is he?

A PIRATE'S HOARD. A VANISHED SHIP. A GLOBAL CATASTROPHE BECKONS . . .

1808, South China Sea.

The infamous Chinese Pirate Queen Ching Shih was as powerful as she was feared. When a rogue captain in her fleet dares defy her wishes, devastation awaits - and a ship full of plundered treasure sinks into history's deeps.

Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala have spent months on the trail of this legendary hoard. But their search is interrupted by a present-day threat - a freighter carrying eight of the most advanced computers ever produced has disappeared in the Western Pacific. In the hands of the enemies of the West, these could be the Information Age's most dangerous weapons.

Plunged into the middle of a cyber-war, Kurt and Joe's only allies are a group of pirates who operate under their own crude laws.

But with hackers to one side and pirates to the other, and the world's digital information at stake, the NUMA crew soon finds that knowing who to trust could be their most daunting mission yet . . .

The interests of Japanese shipping magnates are under threat from pirates trawling the Southeast Asia seas: giant commercial freighters are disappearing. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the spy ship Oregon are called upon to help, but on confronting the enemy they find a deadly international conspiracy…

When archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase, are given the chance to work on an Interpol investigation into smuggled artefacts, they are stunned to realise that the artefacts hold clues to the location of a lost Inca settlement hidden somewhere in South America.

As Nina and Eddie dig deeper, it soon becomes clear that finding the settlement may only be the start of their incredible quest. One which, astonishingly, may lead them to one of the greatest legends of all time: El Dorado - the mythical city of gold.

Nina and Eddie are desperate to locate the fabled city. But they are not alone in their search. Deep in the jungles of Venezuela, they face corrupt soldiers, murderous revolutionaries and ruthless drug lords who will stop at nothing to obtain the city's treasures. 

Book 7 of series. 

Zouga and Dr Robin Ballantyne are aboard a clipper to Africa but their objectives are entirely different. She hopes to bring healing to the fever-ridden populace, whereas he is trading in human cargo.

In the early days of World War II, the infamous German Luftwaffe embark upon an expedition to Antarctica's icy continent. Their mission ends in disaster - its frozen secrets lying forgotten for almost a century . . . When a former NUMA colleague mysteriously disappears, Kurt Austin and his assistant Joe Zavala journey to the freezing edge of the world to investigate. Amidst the perilous waters and frigid temperatures, they soon uncover a terrifying weapon - a man-made, fast-growing ice with the power to usher in a new Ice Age. With a determined madman and a monstrous storm at their heels, Kurt and the NUMA team must unravel the Nazi-era plot, and save the globe from a freeze that would bury it once and for all.

A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo, ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds, is guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy. The fortune was there for the taking, and ready to grab it were a blue-blooded oilman with his own offshore rig, a gangster so cold and independent that even the Mafia couldn’t do business with him and a psychopathic hired assassin. Against them stood one man, and those were his people, those skeletons in their watery coffin. His name was Talbot, and he would bury his dead – but only after he had avenged their murders.

When a routine mission is compromised, Captain Juan Cabrillo learns of a sinister plot. Off the Brazilian coast is another one-legged captain, with a ship just like the Oregon: same weaponry, same technology, same ability to evade capture.  And when this wolf in sheep's clothing begins sinking innocent vessels, the truth becomes clear: Someone is out to frame Cabrillo and his crew. Not only is this impersonator as cunning as Cabrillo - his ship is also every bit as dangerous. Who is this nemesis from Cabrillo's past and just what do they want? To find answers will require terrible sacrifices from Cabrillo, his crew and even the Oregon itself...

Book 14 in the Oregon Files series.

Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon are back in an explosive new adventure A hypersonic missile. A genetically engineered army. A worldwide plot of destruction . . . When Juan Cabrillo, captain of the Oregon, is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to unleash a deadly assault on U.S. forces, sparking a new war in the Middle East and ultimately destroying Israel.

In their quest to stop him, Cabrillo's crew are about to meet their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. From the remote depths of Amazon rainforest to an abandoned monastery in Eritrea, to a final showdown on the jagged mountains of Yemen, the Oregon team must use every shred of courage and cunning they can muster on this global pursuit to disable the ship-killer missile - before the Arabian Sea becomes a mass grave . . .

HMS 'Terrapin' took a vital part in the Battle of the Atlantic. Now, 25 years later, she is working out her last commission in the Gulf of Thailand. Under the stubborn leadership of her new captain, she and her crew find a long-forgotten unity of purpose.

When Juan Cabrillo fails to capture the leader of Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel and loses an Oregon crew member, he wants revenge. But the explosion he narrowly escaped was merely the latest from a decades-old machine of war.

Cabrillo's Corporation may have finally met its match in The Pipeline-a criminal syndicate with a torpedo so deadly it could level entire cities. With millions of innocent civilians under threat, the Oregon's crew must unravel a tangle of drug-smuggling routes and international conspiracies spanning from the Aegean Sea to the Indian Ocean, and find the weapon before its countdown hits zero.

Former naval officer Philip Vivian sets out with his own motor yacht on a profitable, if legally dubious, adventure proposed to him by an old comrade-in-arms. However he soon finds himself trapped in a treacherous web of violence and crime.

When he hears a story about a huge dinosaur fossil locked deep inside an Alpine glacier, university professor Stan finds a childhood dream reignited. Whatever it takes, he is determined to find the buried treasure.

But Stan is no mountaineer and must rely on the help of old friend Umberto, who brings his eccentric young assistant, Peter, and cautious mountain guide Gio. Time is short: they must complete their expedition before winter sets in. As bonds are forged and tested on the mountainside, and the lines between determination and folly are blurred, the hazardous quest for the Earth's lost creatures becomes a journey into Stan's own past.

This breathless, heartbreaking epic-in-miniature speaks to the adventurer within us all.

Archaeologist Nina Wilde believes she knows how to find the lost civilization of Atlantis, but as she travels round the world in search of clues she is pursued by members of a mysterious and murderous sect. Atlantis has held a secret for 11,000 years that, if it fell into the wrong hands, could destroy civilization. X rated, contains graphic violence.  Book 1 of series.

Guy Edwardes is a changed man when he returns from a solo sailing trip to the Arctic. Following a tragedy, his partner Karen and friend Nick try to piece together what happened in the icy waters of the Svalbard archipelago.

The towering iceberg drifting in the North Atlantic was a floating tomb. Embedded in the great gleaming mass was a ship - sealed in so solidly that not even its mast protruded. Here was a sea mystery to rank alongside the Bermuda Triangle and the Marie Celeste. But for Major Dirk Pitt, top troubleshooter for the National Underwater and Marine Agency, it was also the first link in a fantastic chain of events that would lead him too close - and too often - to violent death. And to the discovery of the most sinister and bizarre conspiracy of the century ... ICEBERG

In 1074 BC, vast treasures disappear from the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs. In 1927, a daredevil American aviator vanishes on an attempted transcontinental flight. And in the present day, a fishing trawler - along with its mysterious cargo - sinks off the coast of Scotland. How are these three mysterious events connected? And, more importantly, what do they mean for Kurt Austin and his NUMA team?

A secret passage through a volcano intrigues three men into a dangerous adventure.

Allan Quatermain is approached by Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Good to search for Sir Henry's missing brother, who was hunting for treasure in the fabled King Solomon's Mines, deep in the African interior. Their journey takes them to Kukuanaland, where they become embroiled in a desperate tribal battle, and Quatermain's expedition can only reach its goal with the aid of Gagool, the ancient 'mother' no one trusts.

When Texas oil baron Charlie King contacts Sam and Remi Fargo he has an unusual request. He hired an investigator - and good friend of the pair - to locate his missing father in the Far East. But now the investigator has vanished. Would Sam and Remi be willing to look for them both? Though something about the request doesn't quite add up, Sam and Remi agree to help out.

It's a journey that takes the Fargos to Tibet, Nepal, Bulgaria, India, and China. They get mixed up with black-market fossils, a centuries-old puzzle chest, the ancient Nepali kingdom of Mustang, a balloon aircraft from a century before its time... and an extraordinary skeleton that might turn the history of human evolution on its head.

Book 3 in the Fargo series.

Archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband Eddie Chase are sought out by a man, desperate to warn them about a raid on Alexander The Great's newly-discovered tomb. But before he can explain more, he is assassinated by a wanted Nazi war criminal who has barely aged in 70 years ...  Book 10 of series.

Archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, former SAS soldier Eddie Chase, believe their globe-trotting adventures are over - the biggest worry being how their now-adult daughter Macy is going to spend her life.

But after the violent theft of dangerous relics, with the only surviving guard claiming his attackers were "angels", Nina and Eddie are thrust back into action. Without their knowledge, though, Macy is approached by a mysterious group called the Knights of Atlantis - who want to recruit her.

In a deadly race stretching from the glamorous French Riviera to the blistering heat of the Karakum desert, Nina and Eddie must confront mercenaries, secret societies and the machinations of the world's first trillionaire - with the fate of the world in their hands...  Book 17 of series.

When Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon answer a distress call from a research ship, nothing can prepare them for what they find. A strange and dangerous toxin has left the crew helpless, unable to move or speak. And when a further attack leaves hundreds more paralysed, Juan and his team must race to find an antidote before the damage becomes permanent. Their search for answers leads to a Roman soldier's long-lost testimony, revealing ancient events that strangely parallel their own. But with time running out and a ruthless enemy determined to seize power at any price, it will take all of Juan's ingenuity and skill to piece together the millennia-old mystery and save the West from the point of no return...

Major Dirk Pitt picked up the frantic distress call as he cruised his amphibious plane over the Aegean. Brady Air Force base was under fire, its entire force of jets destroyed on the ground ... by just one First World War bi-plane! A psychotic ex-Nazi, a bloodthirsty Greek strongman and a beautiful double agent sets Pitt on the trail of the warped mastermind behind a devastating sabotage plot. And on that trail, danger and death are never far behind...

The lost city has defined Nina Wilde's life. Her parents' obsession with Atlantis cost them their lives, but finding it brought Nina to her husband Eddie Chase and a series of archaeological treasures.

A decade later, the International Heritage Agency needs their help to locate the Secret Codex, an account of ancient Atlantean explorer Talonor's journeys, thought to be located in the dangerous underwater ruins of Atlantis. Unable to resist one more adventure, the couple join the mission.

But when a long-lost relative reappears in Nina's life, asking her to use the Codex to find a hidden cave containing the secret of King Midas, she is unprepared for the devastation that follows. The promise of unlimited gold has aroused the greed of powerful and ruthless forces... and only Nina and Eddie stand in their way.  Book 12 of series.

Orphaned John Trenchard grows up in the village of Moonfleet with his aunt, entranced by the local legend of the ghostly Blackbeard, who rises each winter night to search for his lost diamond. While conducting his own hunt for the treasure, John begins a dangerous adventure which will see him in a hair-raising chase along a precarious cliff path and deciphering a hidden code in an ancient castle.

On a stormy winter night, two strangers, Ashley Knox and Dr Ben Payne, meet at Salt Lake City airport. When the last outgoing flight is cancelled, Ben finds a charter plane and offers the spare seat to Ashley. But the plane crashes into the High Uintas Wilderness; Ben and Ashley are faced with a battle to survive.

Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicuous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics and spiritualism are frowned upon in aviation circles. But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplained circumstances, Honey must convince his superiors that his unorthodox theories are correct before more lives are lost.

Dirk Pitt finds a communication capsule of the type used by submarines wishing to communicate with ships on the surface and finds inside a chilling message from the commander of the U.S. Navy’s nuclear submarine, the Starbuck, which had disappeared with all hands six months previously.

Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo have gone on impossible missions before and faced many perils, but never have they faced an adversary as determined as the one before them now. The battle for an 800-year-old treasure will take them halfway around the world, and at its end will be either one of the most glorious finds in history, or certain death...

Ronnie Clarke, Australian airline pilot, has always admired Johnny Pascoe, the man who taught him to fly. When he learns that Johnny is injured in a remote part of Tasmania, Ronnie decides to rescue him.