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Pieter Cramer

    Medusa
    Raise the Titanic!
    Angry White Pyjamas
    Dirk Pitt - 26: Clive Cussler’s Duivelse Zee: De 50e Cussler-thriller in vertaling
    Vrouwenwijsheden
    Crescent Dawn
    • Crescent Dawn

      • 548 páginas
      • 20 horas de lectura

      An ancient cargo long thought lost is found. With terrible consequences . . . . Dirk Pitt is surveying in the Middle East when a stroke of luck reveals an Ottoman wreck with a very curious cargo. While investigating the find, he foils a night raid on Istanbul's Topkapi Palace Museum. This puts Pitt at the centre of a race to acquire a series of legendary artefacts. Meanwhile, the region is being pushed to the brink of war by a series of explosions across Turkey and Egypt. Finding that his search for the artefacts is linked to the attacks, Pitt must prevent a deranged brother and sister's fanatical plans from succeeding . . . Packed with breathtaking suspense and fired by an extraordinary imagination, Crescent Dawnis a barnstorming read for all fans of action, suspense and intrigue. 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 'The guy I read' Tom Clancy

      Crescent Dawn
      4,4
    • Als je in de politiek iets gezegd wilt hebben, vraag je het aan een man. Als je iets gedaan wilt hebben, vraag je het aan een vrouw. - Margaret ThatcherVrouwenwijsheden is een heerlijk kleinood vol prikkelende, omstreden of diepzinnige wijsheden over vrouwen van beroemdheden als Anne Frank, Madonna en Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

      Vrouwenwijsheden
      4,0
    • Angry White Pyjamas

      An Oxford Poet Trains with the Tokyo Riot Police

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Adrift in Tokyo, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: he had never been fit. Guided by his flatmates, he set out to cleanse his body and mind, getting involved in Japanese martial arts, and undertaking a course of budo training normally taken by the Tokyo Riot Police. In this book, he blends the ancient with the modern - the ultra traditionalism, ritual and violence of the dojo (training academy), with the shopping malls, nightclubs and scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the 1990s - to provide an entertaining glimpse of contemporary Japan.

      Angry White Pyjamas
      4,0
    • Raise the Titanic!

      • 377 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      In a daring gamble Dirk Pitt locates the "Titanic" and suddenly his crew is in deadly jeopardy.

      Raise the Titanic!
      4,0
    • Medusa

      • 518 páginas
      • 19 horas de lectura

      In 1846, a US whaling vessel, Princess, is struck by a mysterious and deadly tropical illness. In desperation, the captain shores his ship on a hostile island - where, miraculously, his crew are saved by a cure administered by the natives.

      Medusa
      4,0
    • The Navigator

      • 400 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Someone has killed for a statue stolen the Baghdad Museum years ago and the NUMA team must find why.

      The Navigator
      4,0
    • In the remote wastes of Greenland, a young scientist has unearthed an artifact hidden in a cave for a millennium: a 50,000 year-old meteorite - which he soon discovers possesses potentially catastrophic radioactive power. But the astounding find places him in the crosshairs of two opposing terrorist groups who seek the stone for themselves.

      Sacred Stone
      4,0
    • Night Probe

      • 345 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      Cussler's most dazzling bestseller. Dirk Pitt's most dangerous adventure. Dirk Pitt proved invincible in Raise the Titanic! Now, with the future of virtually every person in the world at stake, he is enlisted to spearhead his most daring mission yet -- the rescue of a vital document for the United States. To an energy-starved, economically devastated America, possession of this document is worth billions. But to Great Britain, it's worth a war. Pitt's quest plunges him into a head-to-head confrontation with Britian's most cunning secret agent -- and into the throes of a torrid love triangle. As time runs out for a desperate America, Dirk Pitt races toward an underwater clash more terrifying than anything Clive Cussler has ever created -- the breathtaking climax of Night Probe!

      Night Probe
      3,9
    • The NUMA crew, under Kurt Austin’s direction, take on a blood-thirsty family with a fortune built on crime, in what may be race to discover the very secret of ever-lasting life in this heart-bounding installment in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Kurt Austin is mid-mission when his new colleague, the stunning archeologist Skye Labelle, is called away to examine a mysterious 16th-century military helmet discovered in the possession of a very contemporary-looking corpse. Ms. Labelle’s research on the armor draws her into the sights of a ruthless black-widow with her own plans for the artifact. As danger creeps closer to Ms. Labelle, a scientist half-way across the globe is kidnapped. At the same time, experts working to harvest an enzyme discovered two thousand feet down in the North Atlantic, in an area known as “Lost City,” start turning up dead. Worlds apart in location and areas of expertise, they all have something in common. And it’s up to Kurt Austin, with the help of Joe Zavala and the NUMA Special Assignments Team, to put the pieces together if he’s going to keep his friend safe.

      Lost City
      3,9
    • Serpent

      • 480 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

      When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater & Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent on carving a new nation out of the southwestern United States and Mexico, Halcon's scheme hinges on Nina's recent discovery involving Christopher Columbus, and a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity buried in the battered remains of the sunken Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria. Only Kurt Austin and his crack NUMA team stand between Halcon and the Andrea Doria's silent steel hull - and if their deadly mission fails, Halcon will ride to power on a wave of death and destruction.

      Serpent
      3,9
    • Blue Gold

      • 452 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      From the #1 New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Adventure Clive Cussler comes a breathtaking thriller from the Numa Files series about a primitive Brazilian tribe whose secrets could save the world from the billionaire tycoon set on destroying it. An investigation into the sudden deaths of a pod of gray whales leads National Underwater & Marine Agency leader Kurt Austin to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently out of commission. Meanwhile, in South America’s lush hills, a specially assigned NUMA® team discovers a murdered body—a member of a mysterious local tribe, who live like ghosts beyond a five-part waterfall the locals call the Hand of God, and are rumored to be led by a mythical white goddess. Now they are in danger from a vicious cadre of bio-pirates intent on stealing medicinal discoveries worth millions. Soon, Austin and his crew realize that they’re working opposite ends of the same grand scheme and must race against time to save the world’s freshwater supply from a twisted eco-extortionist. But every step toward salvation takes them deeper into a dense jungle of treachery, blackmail, and death.

      Blue Gold
      3,9
    • Pete McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world. Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways. Firstly obeying the rule 'never pass a pub with your name on it', he encounters McCarthy's bars up and down the land, and meets English hippies, German musicians, married priests and many others. A funny, affectionate look at one of the most popular countries in the world.

      McCarthy's bar: a journey of discovery in Ireland
      3,8
    • Trojan Odyssey

      • 485 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

      Dirk Pitt battles his most dangerous foe ever - with help from a very unexpected source. Long hailed as the grandmaster of adventure fiction, Clive Cussler has continued to astound with the intricate plotting and astonishing set pieces of his novels. Now, with a surprising twist, he gives us his most audacious work of all. At the end of Valhalla RisingDirk Pitt discovered, to his shock, that he had two grown children he had never known, 23-year-old fraternal twins born to a woman he thought had died in an underwater earthquake. Both have inherited his love of the sea- the girl, Summer, a marine biologist- the boy, himself named Dirk, a marine engineer. And now they are about to help their father in the adventure of a lifetime.

      Trojan Odyssey
      3,7
    • Ben-Hur

      een verhaal uit de tijd van Christus' leven op aarde

      • 469 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

      De lotgevallen van een idealistische jood uit een aanzienlijk vorstenhuis ten tijde van Christus, die door een toeval al jong kennis maakt met de hardvochtige Romeinse heersers.

      Ben-Hur