Series by Clive Cussler
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Buy on Amazon1973 · Clive Cussler
Dirk Pitt rides a tidal wave of intrigue in this classic Cussler novel. On an isolated Greek island, a World War I fighter plane attacks a modern…
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Buy on Amazon1975 · Clive Cussler
Just seventy-two hours ago, Dirk Pitt was relaxing in the California sun with a woman and a drink when an urgent call from Admiral James Sandecker of…
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Buy on Amazon1976 · Clive Cussler
The Sicilian Project is an undercover operation designed to create a defense network that will secure America from foreign attacks. The project…
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Buy on Amazon1978 · Clive Cussler
In 1954 a plane bound for the South Pacific, carrying canisters of a virulent organism, vanishes and crashes into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. In…
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Buy on Amazon1981 · Clive Cussler
In the midst of an international crisis, Heidi Milligan, an American naval commander, discovers a reference to the North American Treaty, a secret…
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Buy on Amazon1983 · Clive Cussler
Fully armed and with all hands on board, the nuclear submarine Starbuck set out for sea trials in the Pacific Ocean and disappeared without a trace.…
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Buy on Amazon1984 · Clive Cussler
A deadly tide of poison flows into ocean waters, a ghost ship drifts across the northern Pacific, a Soviet liner burns, and the President disappears…
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Buy on Amazon1986 · Clive Cussler
Cyclops is an action-adventure novel by Clive Cussler, the eighth book in the series featuring Dirk Pitt. A wealthy American financier disappears…
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Buy on Amazon1988 · Clive Cussler
A 1988 action-adventure novel by Clive Cussler. Dirk Pitt uncovers a secret trail to the lost treasures of Alexandria, drawing him into a conspiracy…
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Buy on Amazon1990 · Clive Cussler
This 1990 novel by Clive Cussler brings back hero Dirk Pitt. In 1945, two US bombers take off with atomic bombs and only one gets through; in 1993, a…
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Clive Cussler Obsidian Sky📅 Expected Nov 10, 2026
A forgotten civilization. A lost Biblical artifact. A criminal enterprise lurking beneath the seas. What links them with a potential cataclysmic event that…
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Buy on Amazon2003 · Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo
Golden Buddha is a book by Clive Cussler, the American adventure novelist, underwater explorer, and founder of the National Underwater and Marine…
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Buy on Amazon2004 · Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo
"Sacred Stone" by Clive Cussler and Craig Dirgo follows the Oregon Files series, featuring Captain Juan Cabrillo. In remote Greenland, an ancient…
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Buy on Amazon2005 · Clive Cussler and Jack du Brul
The novel features Juan Cabrillo, the hero of the NUMA and Dirk Pitt series, who leads a crew aboard the spy ship Oregon. They have previously worked…
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Buy on Amazon2006 · Clive Cussler and Jack du Brul
The novel follows Chairman of the Corporation Juan Cabrillo and his mercenary crew as they navigate a high-stakes mission. After escaping a failed…
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Buy on Amazon2008 · Clive Cussler and Jack du Brul
Clive Cussler's Plague Ship follows the Oregon, a heavily armed and technologically advanced ship operated by Captain Juan Cabrillo, a one-legged…
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Buy on Amazon2009 · Clive Cussler and Jack du Brul
A novel by Clive Cussler, fifth in the series featuring the ship Oregon and its one-legged captain Juan Cabrillo. When the U.S. secretary of state's…
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Buy on Amazon2010 · Clive Cussler and Jack du Brul
The Silent Sea is a novel by Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul, the sixth adventure of the Oregon and its crew led by Juan Cabrillo. In 1941, five…
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Buy on Amazon2011 · Clive Cussler
This entry is associated with Clive Eric Cussler, an American adventure novelist and underwater explorer whose thriller novels, many featuring the…
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Buy on Amazon2012 · Clive Cussler
In October 1943, a U.S. destroyer left Philadelphia and disappeared, reportedly due to a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation. The event…
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Buy on Amazon2014 · Clive Cussler
In 1902, Mount Pelée erupted on the island of Martinique, destroying a city of thirty thousand people and submerging a ship carrying a German…
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Buy on Amazon1999 · Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos
The battered remains of the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria lie on the icy sea floor off Nantucket. Inside the ship is a priceless pre-Columbian…
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Buy on Amazon2000 · Clive Cussler
A novel from the NUMA Files follows Kurt Austin and his team as they investigate the deaths of rare whales, leading them to the Mexican coast where…
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Buy on Amazon2002 · Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos
Kurt Austin, leader of the NUMA Special Assignments team, is on a research vessel in the Black Sea when a television interview turns into a rescue…
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Buy on Amazon2003 · Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos
Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA, is called to rescue survivors from a sunken ship after a clash between a radical environmentalist group and a Danish…
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Buy on Amazon2004 · Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos
Clive Cussler's Lost City is part of the Numa Files series, co-written with Paul Kemprecos. The novel follows Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala of Numa's…
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Buy on Amazon2005 · Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos
Kurt Austin, a NUMA operative, faces a dangerous threat in Polar Shift, a novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. An eccentric Hungarian…
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Buy on Amazon2007 · Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos
A Phoenician statue called the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad Museum, and dangerous men are determined to obtain it. They kill a corrupt…
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Buy on Amazon2009 · Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos
Medusa is the seventh book in Clive Cussler's NUMA Files series featuring Kurt Austin. When a secret U.S. undersea lab in the Micronesian Islands…
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Buy on Amazon2011 · Clive Cussler and Graham Brown
Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala, leaders of the NUMA Special Assignment Team, are preparing for a submersible race when a Japanese cargo ship catches fire…
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Buy on Amazon2012 · Clive Cussler
When a NUMA research vessel is destroyed by a mysterious black substance, initially thought to be an oil spill, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala…
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2009 · Clive Cussler and Grant Blackwood
Clive Eric Cussler was an American adventure novelist and underwater explorer. He wrote more than 80 books, many of which featured the character Dirk…
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Buy on Amazon2010 · Clive Cussler and Grant Blackwood
In 2010, Clive Cussler wrote a novel featuring the treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo. They travel through Tanzania and Zanzibar, enter the…
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Buy on Amazon2011 · Clive Cussler and Grant Blackwood
The Kingdom is a novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series featuring treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo, by Clive Cussler. A Texas oil baron…
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Buy on Amazon2012 · Clive Cussler and Thomas Perry
Sam and Remi Fargo, a husband-and-wife team, are asked by an archaeologist friend to help excavate a secret historical site. Their discovery leads…
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Buy on Amazon2013 · Clive Cussler
Sam and Remi Fargo, a husband-and-wife team, are in Mexico when they discover a skeleton holding an ancient sealed pot. Inside the pot is a large…
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Buy on Amazon2014 · Clive Cussler
The outstanding new Fargo adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control…
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Buy on Amazon2015 · Clive Cussler
Rumors surround a bay off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands: some say it holds the lost empire of a Solomon king and great treasure, others say it…
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2016 · Clive Cussler
Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo encounter an 800-year-old treasure, an ancient cypher wheel, and a brutal murder during a…
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Buy on Amazon2017 · Clive Cussler
Treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo search for a Romanov fortune that was paid in 1918 but never reached its intended recipients. During World…
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Clive Cussler The Serpent's Eye📅 Expected Apr 13, 2027
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo face a new exciting adventure in the bestselling series by Clive Cussler, Grand Master of Adventure. The latest…
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Buy on Amazon2007 · Clive Cussler
In 1950, a steam locomotive is discovered in a Montana lake, containing the remains of three men who died forty-four years earlier. This discovery…
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Buy on Amazon2009 · Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
The Wrecker is a 2009 novel by Clive Cussler that introduces Isaac Bell, a detective working for the Van Dorn Detective Agency. Set in 1907, the…
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Buy on Amazon2010 · Clive Cussler
In 1908, Detective Isaac Bell investigates the death of a brilliant American battleship gun designer, initially thought to be a suicide. His client,…
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Buy on Amazon2012 · Clive Cussler
A book by Clive Cussler. On the ocean liner Mauritania, Van Dorn Detective Agency investigator Isaac Bell rescues two European scientists carrying a…
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Buy on Amazon2013 · Clive Cussler
After witnessing a terrible coal mining accident, Detective Isaac Bell hunts for the high-level saboteurs he believes are responsible. A 2013 novel…
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Buy on Amazon2014 · Clive Cussler
It is 1920, and Prohibition has led to widespread bootlegging. Isaac Bell's boss and friend, Joseph Van Dorn, is shot during a high-speed chase of a…
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Buy on Amazon2016 · Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
It is 1906 in New York City, where the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is committing crimes including kidnapping, extortion, and arson.…
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Buy on Amazon2017 · Clive Cussler and Justin Scott
The year is 1911. Chief Investigator Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency is hired to find a young woman named Anna Pape, who ran away from…
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Frequently asked questions
How many books has Clive Cussler written?
We list 80 books by Clive Cussler across 5 series, published between 1973–2025 — each shown in full reading order.
When is the next Clive Cussler book coming out?
The next book is “Clive Cussler Obsidian Sky”, book 28 in the series, expected Nov 10, 2026. That is the publisher's announced date and can change; this page updates when it does.
What order should I read Clive Cussler's books?
Read each series in publication order. A good place to start is “The Mediterranean Caper.” Open any series above for its complete numbered reading order.
Where can I buy Clive Cussler's books?
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