Authors Cou - Cus
Couch, Dick (1943- )
Pressure point. Putnam, 1992. 287 pages
Contemporary USN SEAL adventure.
Silent Descent. Putnam, 1993. 298 pages
A US diesel sub loaded with SEAL Team Two sneaks stealthily into the Soviet Arctic to see if they can successfully rescue a CIA mole from the frozen Kola Penninsula where she's investigating an entrepreneurial Russian colonel who's selling off the nuclear weaponry he's supposed to be dismantling to any tin-pot dictator or rogue state with the cash. The colonel isn't in the racket for personal gain, he's just trying to keep his men paid and prevent the collapse of his command.
Rising wind. Naval Institute Press, 1996. 326 pages
Chilling thriller that raises disturbing questions about leftover World War II animosities, as a Japanese terrorist group captures a key US chemical weapons facility in the Pacific and takes 1,000 American hostages.
Coulter, Stephen (1914-1986)
Threshold. Morrow, 1964. 215 pages
An explosion brings the HMS Uranus to rest on the ocean floor seven miles inside Russian territorial waters. There is seven days of oxygen left for the twenty nine survivors. At 10 Downing St., the survivors count for little in what is debated as an embarrassing accident that may hurt international relations because the sub was in fact on a secret reconnaissance mission. The sub's commander is faced with a mutinous crew led by the Communist saboteur who planned the wreck.
Cox, Patrick G.
A Baltic Affair. Indiego Publishing , 2013. 370 pages
Captain Petroc Gray, commander of the ship-rigged sloop of war, HMS Kestrel, is drawn into diplomacy, intrigue, and espionage when he rescues the Freiherr von Dieffenbach and his family off the island of Rügen in the Baltic. The Freiherr is an important and valuable connection in the struggle to beat the Napoleonic Continental blockade of British trade, and his daughter, Silke, is a delightful young woman with a quick wit, brilliant intelligence, and a keen eye for observing the events unfolding around them.
Cozzens, James Gould (1903-1978)
S.S. San Pedro. Harcourt, Brace, 1931. 136 pages
An ocean liner bound for Argentina with a million dollars in gold and a full passenger list founders in a storm.
Crace, Jim (1946- )
Signals of Distress. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995. 275 pages
In the 1830s an American barque is grounded by a storm on sandbar off small village in the west of England. Americans prove to be a disturbing presence.
Craig, Mary Shura (1923-1991)
Pirate's Landing. Jove, 1983. 331 pages
Saga of an American colonial family who "ploughed the land and sailed the seas" in the early 18th century.
Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)
The Open Boat. Scribner's, June 1898.
Short story about four shipwreck survivors who set out for safety in a lifeboat. "The sternest, creepiest bit of realism ever penned".
Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Adventure. McClure's Magazine, October 1897.
The story of The Open Boat told from the point of view of the Captain.
Crawford, Iain, (1922-2011)
The Burning Sea. Cassell, 1959. 218 pages
Saga of a WW II British rescue tug in the Atlantic and Mediterranean.
Crichton, Michael (1942-2008)
Pirate Latitudes. HarperCollins, 2009. 312 pages
Posthumous tale of pirates in The Caribbean set in 1665.
Crockett, Sherman
Two American boys aboard a submersible. Hurst, 1917. 305 pages
The adventures of two American schoolboys aboard an Allied submarine searching for marauding German submarines and Greek blockade gun-runners during World War I.
Crofts, Freeman Wills (1879- 1957)
The Loss Of The Jane Vosper. Dodd, Mead, 1936. 338 pages
The first 40 pages are afloat, the rest of the book solves the mystery.
Cruts, Randy
Dive into Terror. Black Forest Press, 1995. 348 pages
The Islamic ibn Allah (ISA), a newly formed terrorist organization is in the process of uniting all terrorist factions worldwide. This new threat has split from Nidal's Black June and other heretic terrorist groups. Nick Cutter, a lieutenant in the United States Navy with the warfare specialty of SEAL, is recruited by an elite counter- terrorist team, the Terrorist Neutralization/Hostage Extraction Squad (TNHES or Tennis Team). His new mission, eliminate the most important cell of the ISA.
Cupples, George (1822-1891)
The Green Hand : Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant [a sea story for boys]. G. Routledge and Sons, 1878. 448 pages
The Two Frigates, or Captain Bisset's legacy. G. Routledge and Sons, 1859. 387 pages
Captain Herbert. Chapman, 1864. 3 volumes
The Sunken Rock: A tale of the Mediterranean. Harper & Brothers, 1879. 81 pages
A spliced yarn : some strands from the life cable of Bill Bullen. Gibbins, 1899. 300 pages
Cupples, Anne Jane [aka Mrs. George Cupples] (1839-1896)
Norrie Seton, or, Driven to the Sea. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell, 1869. 326 pages
Currey, Commander Edward Hamilton (1857-1916)
Ian Hardy Series:
Ian Hardy, Naval Cadet. Seeley, Service, 1914. 324 pages
For young boys - the "hero" is ten at the start. A troublesome son, after nearly half a book of non-nautical adventures, is taken to sea by his uncle as a cadet to combat slavers etc. The story is set in the latter half of the nineteenth century. At the story's end he is about fourteen and ready to be promoted midshipman.
Ian Hardy, Midshipman. Seeley, Service, 1915. 320 pages
Ian Hardy, Senior Midshipman. Seeley, Service, 1916. 314 pages
Ian Hardy fighting the Moors. Seeley, Service, 1917. 320 pages
Cussler, Clive (1931-2020)
Dirk Pitt series:
The Mediterranean Caper. Pocket, 1973. 248 pages
Dirk Pitt is up against an international drug smuggling ring and the evil Bruno Von Till, a German pilot who survived both World Wars to become one of the most ruthless smugglers in history. The novel is set in the Aegean Sea, where Dirk Pitt has been sent with Al Giordino to assist Rudi Gunn, with an expedition being conducted by NUMA.
Iceberg. Dodd, Mead, 1975. 314 pages
Ship found frozen in iceberg. Crazed maniac tries to take over the world. Dirk Pitt tries to stop him.
Raise the Titanic! Viking, 1976. 314 pages
Special ore from the only known source in the world sinks with the TITANIC. Dirk Pitt sets out to recover it. Story predates finding the TITANIC by 15 years.
Vixen 03. Viking, 1978. 286 pages
In 1954 a plane, Vixen 03, bound for the South Pacific with canisters of a virulant organism, vanishes. In 1988 Dirk Pitt discovers the remains of the plane whilst on holiday. The lethal canisters are recovered - but not all are accounted for.
Night Probe! Bantam, 1981. 344 pages
The world is in the throes of an energy crunch and the United States is on the brink of financial disaster. Desperate to find any solution that can save the nation from national bankruptcy, the President of the United States looks to Dirk Pitt and NUMA to pull off an audacious double salvage operation.
Pacific Vortex! Bantam, 1983. 270 pages
Undersea adventurer Dirk Pitt faces the toughest challenge of his life when he plunges into the deadly Pacific Vortex, a fog-shrouded zone where dozens of ships have vanished without a trace, the latest being the gigantic STARBUCK, America's deep-diving nuclear arsenal. Dirk battles deep-sea assassins and an exotic beauty as he tries to find and salvage the huge submarine before it explodes.
Deep Six. Simon and Schuster, 1984. 432 pages
From the icy Alaskan waters to a Korean shipbreakers, from a Caribbean shipwreck to the Mississippi, trouble shooter Dirk Pitt tracks down a fiendish conspiracy.
Cyclops. Simon and Schuster, 1986. 475 pages
Dirk Pitt is confronted with the hijacking on a golf course of one of the world's most powerful leaders; an exotic but outrageous undercover operation in the Caribbean and the sinister intrigue of a secret power base on the moon. He also is on the trail of the legendary lost lady of Eldorado, a fabulous treasure hidden in the depths of the ocean.
Treasure. Simon and Schuster, 1988. 539 pages
In 391 a fanatical Emperor orders the destruction of the Library at Alexandria. A small group of conspirators secretly remove some of the most precious items and hides them in a distant, desolate land in an underground redoubt. In 1991 a UN plane is shot down over Greenland. Dirk Pitt, in the area on a search mission for a crippled Soviet submarine, is caught up in a vortex of of complex intrigue. An archaeologist working nearby has found an ancient gold coin far further north than it should have been.
Dragon. Simon and Schuster, 1991. 542 pages
Dirk Pitt gets involved with an Japanese attempt to take over the world again. The ending is the best piece of "TAKE THAT" the reviewer has ever read!
Sahara. Simon and Schuster, 1992. 541 pages
It is 1865. A Confederate ironclad, Texas, fights her way through the Federal blockade and vanishes into the Atlantic as Richmond falls, bearing a secret cargo that could change history... It is 1931. A world-famous Australian aviatrix, Kitty Mannock, vanishes mysteriously in the middle of the Sahara while attempting a record- breaking flight from London to Capetown and is never see again. It is 1995. Dirk Pitt, on a mission to find the remains of a Pharaoh's funeral barge buried in the bottom of the Nile, rescues an attractive young woman, Dr. Eva Rojas, a biochemist with the UN World Health Organization, from being murdered by thugs on a beach near Alexandria.
Inca Gold. Simon and Schuster, 1994. 537 pages
An action-filled chase through the Amazon jungle for 16th Century Spanish treasure. Joining in the pursuit are Dirk Pitt, the hero, his congresswoman girlfriend, the FBI, the Customs Service, archaeologists, a tribe of local Indians, smugglers and various thieves. There's plenty of treasure for everyone, the gold requiring 200 men just to lift.
Shock Wave. Simon and Schuster, 1996. 537 pages
Dirk confronts his most sinister villain yet -- a billionaire diamond king with three beautiful Amazon daughters. Dirk discovers that a deadly plague in the Pacific is being caused by a strange ultrasound resonance which produces shock waves under the sea that kill ever living thing for miles around when they converge. Dirk must stop whoever is generating these waves because the next ones may kill millions of people!
Flood Tide. Simon and Schuster, 1997. 511 pages
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 activities leads Pitt from Washington State to Louisiana, where his quarry is constructing a huge shipping port in the middle of nowhere. Why has he chosen this unlikely location? The trail then leads to the race to find the site of the mysterious sinking of the ship that Chiang Kai-shek filled with treasure when he fled China in 1949, including the legendary boxes containing the bones of Peking Man that had vanished at the beginning of World War I. As Pitt prepares for a final showdown, he is faced with the most formidable foe he has ever encountered.
Atlantis Found. Putnam's, 1999. 544 pages
A team of experts gazes in awe at a wall covered in ancient inscriptions, moments before a dynamite blast seals them deep beneath the rocky ground of Colorado ... A US research ship is attacked by an impossibility - a vessel from a war that ended over half a century ago ... Dirk Pitt, Director of Special Projects for the US National Underwater and Marine Agency, knows that the incidents are connected - but how? As his investigation deepens an astonishing truth becomes clear and a terrible danger revealed. From the impossibly distant past has come a warning. And from an enemy thought long defeated comes a threat to the future of all mankind. Now the clock is ticking. And only one man stands in the way of global Armageddon.
Valhalla Rising. Putnam's, 2001. 531 pages
When the luxury cruise liner Emerald Dolphin - powered by a revolutionary new propulsion system - becomes a raging inferno and sinks mysteriously it is lucky that NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt is on hand to rescue the passengers and investigate the tragedy. Sifting through the undersea wreckage for signs of foul play, Pitt is unaware of powerful, dark forces playing their hand against him. Forced to fight for his life - and those of friends and colleagues - against ever-more ruthless enemies from a shadowy organization, Pitt finds himself caught between the secrets of the past and the intrigues of the future. A future that will hold the world to ransom.
Trojan Odyssey. Putnam, 2003. 485 pages
Dirk Pitt battles his most dangerous foe ever - with help from a very unexpected source. There is a black tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua. Whilst trying to determine its origin, startling things begin to occur and the inhabitants of a floating resort find themselves directly in the path of a violent storm. Dirk and the NUMA crew rush to their rescue, but they discover that there is an all-too- human evil at work and the black tide is only a by-product of its plan. Soon its work will be complete - and the world will be a very different place?
Black Wind. Putnam, 2004. 544 pages
In the waning days of World War II, the Japanese tried a last desperate measure - a different kind of kamikaze mission, this one carried out by two submarines bound for the west coast of the United States, their cargo a revolutionary new strain of biological virus. Neither sub made it to the designated target. But that does not mean they were lost. Someone knows about the subs and what they carried, knows too where they might be, and has an extraordinary plan in for the prize inside - a plan that could reshape the world as we know it. At this point in the series, the author's son Dirk (of course) shares the writing duties.
Treasure of Kahn. Putnam, 2006. 560 pages
Dirk Pitt and the NUMA crew are about to come head to head with their most dangerous ever enemy. A mysterious Mongolian mogul harbors a dream of restoring the conquests of ancient Mongolia. He holds a dark secret about Genghis Khan, his grandson Kublai Khan and the treasures of Xanadu - treasures of gold, yes, but also much, much more. His relentless pursuit of them will cause devastation to millions unless Dirk Pitt can somehow find a way to stop him.
Arctic Drift. Putnam, 2008. 528 pages
Written with Dirk Cussler. In 2011, as the price of gas hits $10 a gallon, President Garner Ward must contend with a corrupt Canadian cabal that's subverting efforts to solve America's energy problems. Pitt barely escapes serious injury when a bomb destroys a D.C. lab along with records of research into an artificial photosynthesis process that could, almost immediately, eliminate the threat of global warming. That discovery may be connected with a legendary failed 19th-century sailing expedition to the Arctic as well as a series of deaths due to the phenomena that the Native Americans of British Columbia know as the Devil's Breath.
Cresent Dawn. Putnam, 2010. 560 pages
In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the middle of the North Sea. In the present day, a cluster of important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together?
Poseidon's Arrow. Putnam, 2012. 528 pages
The United States is developing a secret prototype attack submarine and a ruthless multimillionaire who wants to seize it and sell it as part of his master plan to monopolize the world's rare earth mining operations.
Havana Storm. Putnam, 2014. 452 pages
Dirk Pitt appears in Cuba to investigate a toxic outbreak that could threaten the United States, but winds up becoming involved in a post-Castro battle for political control of the island nation.
Odessa Sea. Putnam, 2016. 496 pages
A Dutch entrepreneur hires the crew of the Crimea-based salvage ship Besso to steal a load of uranium from a black market dealer. He aims to try and sell it to the Iranians in return for 12 missiles, which he will give to the Ukrainian government to use to their war against Russia.
Celtic Empire. Putnam, 2019. 464 pages
NUMA Director Dirk Pitt, as well as NUMA itself, becomes involved in finding who is behind a plot to murder a team of scientists in El Salvador, rob a team of archaeologists along the Nile and who is behind a deadly collision in the waterways along the city of Detroit. Clive Cussler's final novel.