Clive Cussler - Dark Watch

DARK

WATCH

CLIVE

CUSSLER

With JACK DU BRUL

BERKLEY BOOKS, NEW YORK

Clive Cussler once again opens the Oregon Files — already hailed as “honestly fabulous” (Kirkus Reviews) and “action-packed” (Publishers Weekly) — and delivers an all-new novel of adventure and intrigue featuring his unbeatable hero of the high seas, Juan Cabrillo…

Juan Cabrillo and his ingenious crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous living from working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the east — the Far East — to ask for Cabrillo’s special brand of assistance. They are a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates, and their fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia.

Normally, such attacks are aimed at small ships and foreign-owned yachts. Now, giant commercial freighters are disappearing, and Cabrillo suspects that the pirates have joined forces to take down the bigger ships. But when the Oregon confronts the enemy, he learns that the pirates’ predations hide a deadly international conspiracy — a scheme of death and slavery that Juan Cabrillo is going to blow out of the water….

Praise for Clive Cussler

and the novels of The Oregon Files

SACRED STONE

“[An] action-packed page-turner.”

— Publishers Weekly

“Ablaze with action.”

— Kirkus Reviews

GOLDEN BUDDHA

“Readers will burn up the pages.”

— Publishers Weekly

“Fans of Cussler will not be disappointed.”

— Library Journal

Praise for

Clive Cussler’s NUMA ® series

“MARVELOUS…simply terrific fun.”

— Kirkus Reviews

“YOU CAN’T GET MUCH MORE SATISFYING.”

— The Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Cussler and Kemprecos weave A GREAT STORY.”

— Tulsa World

“Audacious and WILDLY ENTERTAINING.”

— New York Daily News

Praise for

Clive Cussler’s Dirk Pitt ® series

BLACK WIND

“[A] RIP-SNORTING ADVENTURE THRILLER.”

— Publishers Weekly

“ANOTHER CUSSLER EPIC…Another win for NUMA.”

— Booklist

“UNABASHED, NO-HOLDS-BARRED ADVENTURE, complete with illustrations. A souped-up treat.”

— The Mirror (U.K.)

VALHALLA RISING

“[A] NONSTOP THRILLER…Cussler speeds and twists through the complex plot and hairbreadth escapes [with] the intensity and suspense of a NASCAR race.”

— Publishers Weekly

“ACTION-FILLED ADVENTURE…GREAT FUN.”

— Library Journal

“CLIVE CUSSLER…IS AT TOP FORM HERE.”

— Kirkus Reviews

ATLANTIS FOUND

“A DELIGHTFUL PAGE-TURNER that is almost impossible to put down.”

— The San Francisco Examiner

“WICKEDLY ENGROSSING.”

— Publishers Weekly

“BY FAR THE BEST. Atlantis Found has wonderful characters and a plot that speeds along like a comet.”

— Tulsa World

“THE FUNNEST DIRK PITT ADVENTURE SINCE RAISE THE TITANIC! ”

— Rocky Mountain News

“ENOUGH INTRIGUE TO SATISFY EVEN THE MOST DEMANDING THRILL SEEKERS…An entertaining and exciting saga, full of techno details and narrow escapes.”

— The Chattanooga Times

DIRK PITT ® ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER

Trojan Odyssey

Valhalla Rising

Atlantis Found

Flood Tide

Shock Wave

Inca Gold

Sahara

Dragon

Treasure

Cyclops

Deep Six

Pacific Vortex

Night Probe

Vixen 03

Raise the Titanic!

Iceberg

The Mediterranean Caper

DIRK PITT ® ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER WITH DIRK CUSSLER

Black Wind

FICTION BY CLIVE CUSSLER WITH PAUL KEMPRECOS

Polar Shift

Lost City

White Death

Fire Ice

Serpent

Blue Gold

FICTION BY CLIVE CUSSLER WITH JACK DU BRUL

Dark Watch

FICTION BY CLIVE CUSSLER AND CRAIG DIRGO

Sacred Stone

Golden Buddha

NONFICTION BY CLIVE CUSSLER AND CRAIG DIRGO

The Sea Hunters II

The Sea Hunters

Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed

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