Books like Raise the Titanic!
The United States needs byzanium, a rare element for a secret defence system, and the only known supply went down with the Titanic in 1912, so Dirk Pitt of the National Underwater and Marine Agency sets out to raise the ship while Soviet agents work to stop him.
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The Hunt for Red October
Soviet captain Marko Ramius takes Red October, a nuclear submarine with an almost silent drive, out into the Atlantic with the whole Soviet fleet chasing him, and CIA analyst Jack Ryan has to convince Washington that Ramius means to defect.
Live and Let Die
James Bond trails a gold-smuggling voodoo crime lord from Harlem to a Caribbean island rigged with shark-filled death traps.
Treasure Island
Young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map in a dead pirate's sea chest and sails in search of the gold, with a crew that includes the charming, treacherous ship's cook, Long John Silver.
Captains Courageous
Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled son of an American railroad millionaire, falls overboard from a liner and is fished out by a Gloucester cod schooner whose captain won't turn back for months.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
A French professor and two companions become the prisoners and guests of Captain Nemo aboard his submarine, the Nautilus, on a voyage through the wonders and terrors of the world's oceans.
The Templar Legacy
Cotton Malone, a former Justice Department agent who now sells rare books in Copenhagen, is drawn back into danger when his old boss is attacked on a visit, and follows her into the south of France on the trail of the Knights Templar's lost archive.
Master and Commander
In Port Mahon in 1800, Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy, newly given his first command, the little brig Sophie, meets Stephen Maturin, a penniless physician and naturalist, at a concert, and the two begin a friendship that carries them into the Napoleonic wars at sea.
Fable
Abandoned on an island of thieves by her trader father after her mother drowned, seventeen-year-old Fable dives for gems to buy her way off it, and finally talks her way onto a ship whose young captain has secrets of his own.
The Lost Girls of Paris
In 1946, Grace Healey finds a suitcase abandoned under a bench in Grand Central Terminal and inside it photographs of twelve women, agents sent into occupied France by a British network led by Eleanor Trigg, who never came home.
The Count of Monte Cristo
A young sailor is wrongly imprisoned for fourteen years, escapes with a fortune, and reinvents himself to exact an elaborate revenge on those who betrayed him.
The False Inspector Dew
In 1921 Walter Baranov, a London dentist, sails for New York on the Mauretania with his lover, planning to be rid of his wife on the way. Travelling under the name Walter Dew, the inspector who caught Dr Crippen, he is asked to investigate a murder on board.
Around the World in Eighty Days
A wealthy Englishman bets he can circle the globe in eighty days, and the clockwork journey becomes a love story and a comedy of cultural encounter.