Издания и произведения

Off the coast of Somalia a battered, old freighter is boarded by pirates whose sights are set on a hefty ransom... But these pirates have made a mistake. For this rusting freighter is none other than Juan Cabrillo's secretive fighting ship Oregon. And Cabrillo is about to turn the tables on a deadly Somali pirate captain.

Археолог Алана Шеппард разыскивает в Африке, неподалеку от побережья Средиземного моря, тайную базу знаменитого средневекового пирата Сулеймана аль-Джамы. По преданию, на его корабле "Сакр" остались несметные сокровища. Но Алану интересуют вовсе не сокровища, а записки старого корсара, которые могут изменить положение в современном мире. Однако за древними рукописями охотятся также ливийские террористы, главарь которых называет себя... аль-Джамой!

For five novels, Clive Cussler has brought readers into the world of the "Oregon," a seemingly dilapidated ship packed with sophisticated equipment, and captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo. And now the "Oregon" and its crew face their biggest challenge yet. Corsairs are pirates, and pirates come in many different varieties. There are the pirates who fought off the Barbary Coast in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the contemporary pirates who infest the waters of Africa and Asia, and the pirates . . . who look like something else. When the U.S. secretary of state's plane crashes while bringing her to…