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DIRK PITT® ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER

Crescent Dawn (with Dirk Cussler)
Arctic Drift
Dragon (with Dirk Cussler)
Treasure of Khan (with Dirk Cussler)
Black Wind
Cyclops (with Dirk Cussler)
Trojan Odyssey
Deep Six
Valhalla Rising
Pacific Vortex!
Atlantis Found
Night Probe!
Flood Tide
Vixen 03
Shock Wave
Raise the Titanic!
Inca Gold
Iceberg
Sahara
The Mediterranean Caper

FARGO ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER

(with Grant Blackwood)

The Kingdom
Lost Empire
Spartan Gold

ISAAC BELL NOVELS BY CLIVE CUSSLER

The Spy (with Justin Scott)
The Wrecker (with Justin Scott)
The Chase

KURT AUSTIN ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER

(with Paul Kemprecos)

Medusa
White Death
The Navigator
Fire Ice
Polar Shift
Blue Gold
Lost City
Serpent

OREGON FILES ADVENTURES BY CLIVE CUSSLER

(with Jack Du Brul )

The Jungle
The Silent Sea
Corsair
Plague Ship
Skeleton Coast
Dark Watch

(with Craig Dirgo)
Golden Buddha
Sacred Stone

NONFICTION BY CLIVE CUSSLER AND CRAIG DIRGO

The Sea Hunters
The Sea Hunters II
Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cussler, Clive.
The race / Clive Cussler and Justin Scott.
p. cm.

ISBN : 978-1-101-54773-1

1. Bell, Isaac (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Private investigators—Fiction.
I. Scott, Justin. II. Title.
PS3553.U75R
813’.54—dc22

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