Clive Cussler: Mayday! (UK 2024)

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Major Dirk Pitt picked up the frantic distress call as he cruised his lumbering amphibious plane over the islands of 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 set Pitt on the trail of the warped mastermind behind a devastating sabotage plot. And on that trail, danger and death are never far behind...

Clive Cussler: Mayday! A Dirk Pitt Novel. Sphere, ISBN: 9780751504804 (September, 2024), 294 p., £12.99.

Clive Cussler: The Mediterranean Caper (USA 2013)

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The 40th-anniversary edition of the first Dirk Pitt adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author and grand master of adventure.

When Clive Cussler published his first novel in 1973, he knew he didn't want to write a familiar kind of character -- no spy or detective or undercover investigator -- his hero would have grand adventures set on or under water. He named him Dirk Pitt, and his organization the National Underwater and Marine Agency, or NUMA -- and one of the world's most beloved series characters was born.

Now in a special 40th-anniversary edition, complete with endpaper maps and a new foreword from Cussler, here is the book that started it all, filled with every one of the Cussler hallmarks: the cutting-edge technology, the treacherous men and exotic women, and, of course, the fabulous plots.

On a quiet Greek island, a U.S. air force base has come under attack -- by a World War I fighter plane...

Now it is up to Dirk Pitt, Al Giordino, and the rest of the NUMA team to root out the elusive truth behind the incident -- and find out how it's connected to mysterious acts of sabotage against a scientific expedition, an international smuggling ring, and a dark-haired beauty with some dangerous secrets.

Clive Cussler: The Mediterranean Caper. The First Dirk Pitt Novel, A 40th Anniversary Edition. With a new preface by the author. Putnam's, ISBN: 9780399166815 (July, 2013), 384 p., $25.00.

Clive Cussler: Mayday! (UK 2013)

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The first in the iconic Dirk Pitt series, Mayday!, is published in hardback to celebrate 40 years of thrills from Clive Cussler, the world's favourite adventure writer

Brady Air Force Base, Crete. A small yellow aeroplane swoops down out of the calm mediterranean skies, its guns blazing. On the ground, rows of the latest hi-tech jet fighters are reduced to no more than burning wrecks in seconds. Their unlikely destroyer appears to be a World War One German biplane.

Patrolling nearby is an old flying boat belonging to the National Underwater and Maritime Agency. In the cockpit, NUMA troubleshooter Major Dirk Pitt picks up the panicked distress call from Brady and seizes the chance to fight back. In the desperate aerial dogfight that follows Pitt eventually gains the upper hand. But while the battle is won, the mysterious plane and its pilot escape, leaving just destruction and unanswered questions in their wake.

The mystery soon deepens when Pitt encounters a seductive double agentand starts to uncover evidence of a deadly plot with, at its head, a evil mastermind who is hiding a dangerous and chilling past. And who will now stop at nothing to achieve his twisted ambitions.

With all the page-turning pace and stunning, hair-raising invention and heart-stopping thrills that have won millions of dedicated fans, Mayday! is the book that introduced Dirk Pitt to the world. Published in an exclusive new hardback edition to celebrate forty years of adventure from Clive Cussler and his enduringly popular hero, Mayday! is where it all begins.

Clive Cussler: Mayday! A Dirk Pitt Novel. Michael Joseph, ISBN: 9780718177881 (June, 2013), 294 p., £18.99.

Clive Cussler: Mayday! (UK 2009)

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Discover the first book in Clive Cussler's iconic Dirk Pitt series
Brady Air Force Base is under attack. Major Dirk Pitt comes to the rescue, engaging in a frantic mid-air fight with the mysterious pilot of what appears to be a First World War German bi-plane, tearing apart the calm skies over the Aegean.

The battle is won, but the plane and its ghost pilot are nowhere to be seen, and Pitt can't shake the uneasy feeling left by the encounter. The mystery intensifies when he encounters a seductive double agent, and Pitt is set on the trail of the twisted mastermind behind a deadly plot. Danger is never far away as he clashes with a fanatic ex-Nazi, a psychotic Greek strongman and a whole world of trouble

Clive Cussler: Mayday! A Dirk Pitt Novel. Sphere, ISBN: 9780751504804 (September, 2009), 294 p., £8.99.

Clive Cussler: The Mediterranean Caper (USA 2004)

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Dirk Pitt rides a tidal wave of intrigue in this classic Cussler.
On an isolated Greek island, a World War I fighter plane attacks a modern U.S. Air Force base - a mysterious saboteur preys on an American scientific expedition - and Dirk Pitt plays a deadly game of hunter and hunted with the elusive head of an international smuggling ring.

Clive Cussler: The Mediterranean Caper. Berkley Publishing Group, ISBN: 0425197395 (April, 2004), 324 p., $7.99.

Clive Cussler: The Mediterranean Caper (USA 2000)

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THE MEDITERRANEAN CAPER
On an isolated Greek island, a World War I fighter plane attacks a modern. U.S. Air Force base... a mysterious saboteur preys on an American scientific expedition... and DIRK PITT plays a deadly game of hunter and hunted with the elusive head of an international smuggling ring.

DIRK PITT, intrepid hero of Clive Cussler's smash bestsellers Dragon, Sahara, and Inca Gold, is hot on the trail of a mammoth drug conspiracy controlled by a missing Nazi war criminal. On land and in the depths of the Aegean, Pitt trouble-shoots his way through one of his most daring, desperate adventures!

Clive Cussler: The Mediterranean Caper. A Dirk Pitt Adventure. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0671737783 (December, 2000), 248 p., $6.99.

Clive Cussler: The Mediterranean Caper (USA 1986)

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A LUFTWAFFE ACE WHO WOULDN'T DIE... A BRUNETTE BEAUTY WITH DANGEROUS SECRETS. A LETHAL, BILLION-DOLLAR CARGO!
THE MEDITERRANEAN CAPER
On an isolated Greek island, a World War I fighter plane attacks a modern U.S. Air Force base... a mysterious saboteur preys on an American scientific expedition and Dirk Pitt plays a deadly game of hunter and hunted with the elusive head of an international smuggling ring.

Dirk Pitt, intrepid hero of Clive Cussler's smash bestsellers Deep Six, Raise the Titanic! and Cyclops is hot on the trail of a mammoth drug conspiracy controlled by a missing Nazi war criminal. On land and in the depths of the Aegean, Pitt trouble-shoots his way through one of his most daring, desperate adventures yet!

Clive Cussler: The Mediterranean Caper. Dirk Pitt Tackles a Deep Water Intrigue of Riveting Terror and Deadly Greed. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0671632566 (March, 1986 / 2nd printing, undated), 248 p., $4.50.

Clive Cussler: Mayday! (UK 1979)

From the Publisher:
Major Dirk Pitt picked ap the frantic distress call as he cruised his lumbering amphibious plane over the islands of the Aegean. Brady Air Force Base, ten miles away, was under fire, its entire force of jets destroyed on the ground... and the aggressor was a single World War I biplane.

Pitt's determination to solve the mystery behind this deadly echo from the past leads him into deep and treacherous waters. His encounters with a psychotic ex-Nazi, a vicious narcotics dealer, a bloodthirsty Greek strongman and a beautiful double-agent set him finally on the trail of the mastermind behind a devastating sabotage plot. But on that trail, danger and death are never far behind...

Clive Cussler: Mayday!. A Surging Superthriller of Violent Action and Knife-Edge Suspense. London: Sphere, 1979, ISBN: 0722127421, 240 p., 95p.

Clive Cussler: The Mediterranean Caper (USA 1977)

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The dangerous, desperate search for a Luftwaffe ace who won't die
a Nazi war criminal who eluded justice
a beautiful, untrustworthy brunette
a deadly billion-dollar cargo

THE MEDITERRANEAN CAPER by Clive Cussler
author of Raise The Titanic!

Clive Cussler: The Mediterranean Caper. Bantam Books, ISBN: 055311266X (December, 1977 / 6th printing, undated), 248 p., $1.95.

Clive Cussler: The Mediterranean Caper (USA 1973)

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May Day... May Day... We Are Under Attack...
It was Impossible to believe that a World WarI Albatross bi-plane could wreak such havoc and destruction. But as Pitt banked his lumbering World War II amphibious plane and Giordino braced himself. rifle in hand, at the open waist-hatch, the vintage marauder reappeared.

Flying out of the sun, Pitt had caught his quarry unaware. But the wily pilot of the Albatross recovered quickly, luring Pitt into a bizarre and lethal dog-fight.

Then the Albatross dipped in the traditional flyer's acknowledgment of defeat and vanished as suddenly and mysteriously as it had appeared.

In his efforts to uncover the source behind the sabotage of a scientific expedition, Pitt finds himself in the company of a psychopathic ex-Nazi; an unrelenting narcotics agent; a savage, bloodthirsty Greek strongman; a beautiful double-agent; and an amateur egg-head commando group.

Clive Cussler: The Mediterranean Caper. A treacherous ex-Nazi, a cunning drug connection, and scientific sabotage in the hottest new superthriller of the year! Pyramid Books, ISBN: 0515031798 (November, 1973), 301 p., $1.25.