You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", but that ain't no matter.' So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest American novels. Narrated by a poor, illiterate white boy living in America's deep South before the Civil War, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the story of Huck's escape from his brutal father and the relationship that grows between him and Jim, the slave who is...

When Dirk Pitt saves a group of archaeologists from drowning, he finds himself caught up in a smuggling ring searching for lost Inca treasure.

The coin of the realm for the wealthy, insatiably greedy Chinese smuggler who is Dirk Pitt's adversary in "Flood Tide" is human lives: much of his vast fortune has been made smuggling Chinese immigrants into countries around the globe, including the United States. Tracking the smuggler's nefarious activities leads Pitt from Washington State to Louisiana, where his quarry is mysteriously constructing a huge shipping port in the middle of nowhere. Why...

The year is 1793 and Europe is ablaze with war…Thomas Kydd, a young wig-maker from Guildford, is seized by the press gang, to be a part of the crew of the battle ship Royal William. The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the harsh realities of shipboard life fast. Despite all that he goes through, he comes to admire the skills and courage of the seamen - taking up the challenge himself to become a true sailor.

It's the great age of fighting sail, when the seven seas are stalking grounds for prey and prize money…Aboard the crack frigate HMS Artemis, life can be invigorating-and short. Now a fully-fledged Jack Tar, Kydd sails into Portsmouth Harbour and a hero's welcome after a ferocious battle against the French. However his jubilation is cut short when a family matter threatens to take him from the life he has grown to love. But the sea beckons and Kydd...

After NUMA hero Dirk Pitt's daughter, a marine biologist, discovers an ancient artifact off the coast of Nicaragua, the sea crew and a floating resort hotel find themselves in the path of a terrible storm and someone's dangerous designs.

An enzyme that prolongs life has been discovered in the North Atlantic, in an area known as Lost City. But why are all those connected with it getting killed? including the people attempting to harvest it, the scientists stationed in a remote Greek laboratory who have been disappearing one by one and what does the body found frozen in the Alps have to do with this? To Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA's Special Assignments Team, and his colleague Joe Zavala,...

After a night of indiscriminate partying, Rachel sleeps with a close friend's fianc ǎnd is consumed with guilt, until the intensity of her feelings forces her to make a difficult choice.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed comes a novel that shows how someone with a 'perfect life' can lose it all-and then find everything. Darcy Rhone thought she had it all figured out: the more beautiful the girl, the more charmed her life. Never mind substance. Never mind playing by the rules. Never mind karma. But Darcy's neat, perfect world turns upside down when her best friend, Rachel, the plain-Jane "good girl,"...

Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known as the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad Museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. Their first victim is a crooked antiquities dealer, murdered in cold blood. Their second very nearly is a UN investigator who, were it not for the timely assistance of Austin and Zavala, would now be at the bottom of a watery grave. What's so special about this statue? Austin wonders....