New Releases by Jack Du Brul

Cuando Juan Cabrillo acepta el encargo de rescatar al hijo de un millonario en Afganistán no puede imaginar que acabará luchando contra una islamista tan fanático que pretende destruir todo Occidente. En Afganistán, Juan Cabrillo y la tripulación del carguero Oregon consiguen llevar a cabo su misión: el rescate del hijo de un millonario indonesio que ha sido secuestrado por un grupo terrorista. Al mismo tiempo también logran la liberación de otro preso, un mercenario llamado Lawless. Las habilidades en la lucha de Lawless impresionan tanto a Cabrillo que decide reclutarlo para su propio equipo. Juntos se enfrentarán a un nuevo rescate, el de la hija de un millonario francés en la selva birmana. Muy pronto descubrirán que detrás de estos secuestros hay una amenaza aún más terrible, una amenaza que incluso hará temblar al grupo terrorista más poderoso del mundo... un arma capaz de destruir los Estados Unidos de un solo golpe.

1937. Le zeppelin Hindenburg s’écrase près de New York. Dans le crash, une arme secrète, particulièrement redoutable, est détruite. 70 ans plus tard, ce secret est sur le point de refaire surface et menace à nouveau le monde. Philip Mercer, géologue et agent secret, est en mission en Afrique centrale à la recherche d’un métal précieux utilisé dans la fabrication de composants électroniques. Dans cette jungle hostile, il rencontre une jeune scientifique qui enquête sur un phénomène troublant : un village présente le taux de cancer le plus élevé au monde... L’agent secret est progressivement entrainé dans l’aventure la plus spectaculaire de sa carrière, sur les traces d’un mystère remontant à l’Egypte Antique... Une aventure palpitante par le co-auteur de la série Oregon avec Clive Cussler.

A bord de l’Oregon, un navire de guerre recelant les gadgets les plus sophistiqués, les membres de la Corporation, emmenés par Juan Cabrillo, protègent au péril de leur vie les intérêts occidentaux. Alors que Cabrillo vient de terminer une mission à haut risque dans une base militaire iranienne, il découvre en pleine mer un navire de croisière, jonché de centaines de corps sans vie. L’équipe de l’Oregon s’est à peine échappée avec la seule survivante, que déjà le bateau coule, et en-gloutit avec lui toute trace du forfait. Des Philippines aux eaux de la Méditerranée et aux fjords de Norvège, Juan et ses hommes vont tout faire pour découvrir le sombre complot qui se cache derrière ce meurtre de masse et mettre un terme aux desseins mortels de ses commanditaires...

Juan Cabrillo, directeur de la Corporation, supervise des missions commerciales à bord de l''Oregon, un navire de guerre ultramoderne. Des armateurs japonais achètent ses services. Or, la fortune de ces magnats est menacée par des pirates des mers. Face à ces ennemis, J. Cabrillo et son équipage découvrent que ces méfaits dissimulent une conspiration internationale.

Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew''s search for missing NASA technology leads to a globe-trotting adventure in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. On December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the coast of Washington state make an exciting discovery, only to be interrupted by news of Pearl Harbor. In the present, Cabrillo, chasing the remnants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, makes a shocking discovery of his own. His search to untangle the mystery leads him first to that small island and its secret, and then much further back, to an ancient Chinese expedition, and a curse that seems to have survived for over five hundred years. If Cabrillo’s team is successful in its quest, the reward could be incalculable. If not...the only reward is death.

Ex-CIA ship captain Juan Cabrillo leads the crew of the Oregon on a quest to save a kidnapped politician in this adventure in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. 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 a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Juan Cabrillo to search for her, and their misgivings are well founded. The crew locates the plane, but the secretary of state has vanished. It turns out Libya’s new foreign minister has other plans for the conference, plans that Cabrillo cannot let happen. But what does it all have to do with a two- hundred- year-old naval battle and the centuries-old Islamic scrolls that the Libyans seem so determined to find? The answers will lead him full circle into history, and into another pitched battle on the sea, this time against Islamic terrorists, and with the fate of nations resting on its outcome.

Désert du Kalahari, 1896. Quatre Anglais, pourchassés par de redoutables guerriers, tentent de regagner la côte où les attend le HMS Rove. Une tempête de sable se lève. Sur le Congo, à bord d''un petit bateau de pêche, Sloane Macintyre est lui aussi sur la piste du HMS Rove, et d''un serpent de mer métallique dont lui a parlé un vieux pêcheur fou ...

Chairman Juan Cabrillo and the rest of the Corporation''s mercenaries fight to stop a corrupt activist group from unleashing a viral attack in this #1 New York Times-bestselling adventure from the Oregon Files. Captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo and manned by a crew of former military and spy personnel, the Oregon is a private enterprise, available for any government agency that can afford it. They''ve just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf when they come across a cruise ship adrift at sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and, as Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship. Barely able to escape with his own life and that of the liner’s sole survivor, Cabrillo finds himself plunged into a mystery as intricate – and as perilous – as any he has ever known and pitted against a cult with monstrously lethal plans for the human race . . . plans he may already be too late to stop

Eine schlagkräftige Crew um den früheren Militär- und Geheimdienstagenten Juan Cabrillo kämpft gegen die schlimmen Geschäfte von Piraten, die Tausende chinesische Flüchtlinge als Sklaven in Goldbergwerken missbrauchen.

During World War II, in a secret Nazi submarine base, boxes made from looted wartime gold were hidden away. These "Pandora''s boxes" contained an artifact so lethal that whoever possessed them held the power to unleash hell upon the Earth. And now they have been found by a man who will use them to hold the world hostage-unless Philip Mercer can stop him...

New Jersey, 1937: A homicidal madman bears a safe holding a terrible secret that is thought lost when fiery fate intervenes. Decades later, the discovery of that secret is about to threaten the world once more.... Mining engineer Philip Mercer is in the war-torn Central African Republic searching for precious metal. There, he meets Cali Stone, a field researcher for the CDC who is investigating why a certain village suffers from one of the highest rates of cancer in the world-a fact that intrigues Mercer. Once back in the states, Mercer''s search for answers leads him to a long-lost safe and a cryptic note inside that may reveal a three thousand year-old deception...

Chairman of the Corporation Juan Cabrillo and his mercenary crew steer theOregon into battle against a militant leader and his cult-like followers in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Still smarting from a weapons-trade gone bad and a double-cross, Cabrillo takes action. He manages to save the beautiful Sloane Macintyre, who''s on a mission of her own, looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked on the open sea by giant metal snakes in the same area. What begins as a snake hunt leads Cabrillo onto the trail of a far more lethal quarry—a deranged militant and his followers who plan to unleash the devastating power of nature itself against all who oppose them.

Years ago, a secret Soviet plan was created to destroy the Alaskan oil pipeline. Now, those plans have been stolen by the brilliant and treacherous ex-KGB agent Ivan Kerikov. Joining forces with a powerful Arab oil minister, Charon''s Landing is about to be unleashed at last. But they didn''t count on the one man who possesses the determination and daring to stop them cold. They didn''t count on Philip Mercer.

It begins deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, where a nuclear bomb strikes at the fiery hot heart of the earth. Churning, spewing boiling lava, a volcano rises with unnatural speed from the ocean floor -- the source of a new mineral that promises clean, limitless nuclear power. It continues in hot spots around the globe: Hawaii, where a secessionist movement is about to turn violent and the American army may be asked to fire on U.S. citizens; Washington, D.C., where the subway system becomes the site of a running gun battle; the Far East, where disrupted diplomatic negotiations jeopardize world peace; a rogue Russian submarine, circling the infant volcano. Caught in the middle is Philip Mercer, a geologist and a one-time commando with shady contacts in all the right (or is it wrong?) places. When Mercer learns that the daughter of an old friend is being kept under armed guard in a local hospital, he vows to rescue her, not knowing that this is the first step in unraveling the fantastic secrets of Vulcan''s Forge.

Juan Cabrillo and his crew aboard the Oregon take on modern-day pirates for a surprising new client in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous living working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the Far East to ask for Cabrillo''s special brand of assistance: a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia. Normally, such attacks on the high seas are limited to smaller ships and foreign-owned yachts-easy targets on the open ocean. Now, however, giant commercial freighters are disappearing. But when Cabrillo confronts the enemy, he learns that the pirates'' predations hide a deadly international conspiracy-a scheme of death and slavery that Juan Cabrillo is going to blow out of the water.

USA Today bestselling author Jack Du Brul brings back geologist-adventurer Philip Mercer for an apocalyptic adventure. Hired to lead the excavation of caverns deep beneath Area 51, Philip Mercer finds himself drilling straight into the epicenter of an age-old conspiracy. A reclusive order of Himalayan monks, through special knowledge of the earth’s tectonic movement, has predicted the end of the world—and it is determined to see the prediction unfold accordingly. Now, with icebergs floating through the South Pacific and a thermonuclear bomb set to destroy an island paradise, the stage is set for Armageddon—and it is up to Philip Mercer and the beautiful, mysterious Tisa Nguyan to prevent a cataclysm beyond imagination.

Bidding on a rare diary, written during the French attempt to dig the Panama Canal, geologist Philip Mercer finds himself caught up in a complex Chinese plot to trigger a shift in the world''s balance of power.

During World War II, in a secret Nazi submarine base, containers crafted entirely from looted wartime gold were hidden away. The treasure was not the solid gold chests, but the cargo they carried—an artifact so lethal that whoever possessed “Pandora’s boxes” held the power to unleash hell upon the Earth… In the unforgiving wastes of Greenland, geologist Philip Mercer uncovers a long-abandoned U.S. Army base buried under the ice—and a long-dead body still hot with radiation. But before Mercer and his colleague, the seductive Dr. Anika Klein, can investigate further, a flash fire engulfs the base. Ordered to evacuate, their plane is forced to land when a bomb is discovered on board, and they must seek shelter from the murderous weather in a hidden ice cavern. That’s where they learn the startling truth. A powerful German corporation has launched an operation to destroy evidence of its Nazi past. But one of the corporate mercenaries knows what’s inside the Pandora’s boxes, and he plans to hold the entire world hostage—unless Mercer can find a way to stop him…

In the tiny African nation of Eritrea, the American spy satellite Medusa has crashed but not before its sensors revealed an underground kimberlite pipeline, the telltale sign of a huge load of diamonds. The mine turns out to be King Solomon''s Lost Mine, but with it is a tale of heartbreak---it was children who worked and died in the mine for 400 years, leading to many local myths of curses. It is also practically on the border with a very unfriendly Sudan. Throw in two warring Israeli factions, a hidden monastery guarding an ancient secret, an evil Italian businessman with his own army, and an incredible amount of derring-do and you have one terrific action novel. In the Medusa Stone by Jack DuBrul readers will find an intricate tale filled with action and intrigue. DuBrul is only thirty years old but he is already being compared to the very best in the spy and thriller genre.