Il segreto del Titanic (Clive Cussler: Le avventure di Isaac Bell)

by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul

Colorado, 1911. Nove operai muoiono nella miniera di Little Angel in circostanze misteriose. Il detective privato Isaac Bell, incaricato di far luce sulla vicenda, si rende ben presto conto che quelle morti sono solo un risvolto di un enigma più inquietante. Tutto sembra infatti ruotare attorno a un prezioso e raro elemento chimico, il bizanio, e ad alcuni uomini senza scrupoli disposti a tutto pur di entrarne in possesso. Le indagini condurranno il detective al molo di Southampton, in Inghilterra, dove un transatlantico appena uscito dai cantieri, un vero gioiello della tecnologia, è pronto a salpare per il suo viaggio inaugurale oltreoceano, trasportando nella stiva un carico inestimabile.
New York, oggi. Durante le operazioni di recupero di una parte del carico del Titanic, Dirk Pitt viene in possesso di una testimonianza di Isaac Bell che gli rivelerà informazioni sconvolgenti sul disastro della miniera in Colorado del 1911.
Con un’alleanza che unisce due epoche lontane più di cent’anni, Bell e Pitt lotteranno per dissipare ogni mistero in una missione che si concluderà solo con il fatidico primo e ultimo viaggio del Titanic…

421 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 21, 2025

About the author

Cussler began writing novels in 1965 and published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt, in 1973. His first non-fiction, The Sea Hunters, was released in 1996. The Board of Governors of the Maritime College, State University of New York, considered The Sea Hunters in lieu of a Ph.D. thesis and awarded Cussler a Doctor of Letters degree in May, 1997. It was the first time since the College was founded in 1874 that such a degree was bestowed.

Cussler was an internationally recognized authority on shipwrecks and the founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, (NUMA) a 501C3 non-profit organization (named after the fictional Federal agency in his novels) that dedicates itself to preserving American maritime and naval history. He and his crew of marine experts and NUMA volunteers discovered more than 60 historically significant underwater wreck sites including the first submarine to sink a ship in battle, the Confederacy's Hunley, and its victim, the Union's Housatonic; the U-20, the U-boat that sank the Lusitania; the Cumberland, which was sunk by the famous ironclad, Merrimack; the renowned Confederate raider Florida; the Navy airship, Akron, the Republic of Texas Navy warship, Zavala, found under a parking lot in Galveston, and the Carpathia, which sank almost six years to-the-day after plucking Titanic's survivors from the sea.

In addition to being the Chairman of NUMA, Cussler was also a fellow in both the Explorers Club of New York and the Royal Geographic Society in London. He was honored with the Lowell Thomas Award for outstanding underwater exploration.

Cussler's books have been published in more than 40 languages in more than 100 countries. His past international bestsellers include Pacific Vortex, Mediterranean Caper, Iceberg, Raise the Titanic, Vixen 03, Night Probe, Deep Six, Cyclops, Treasure, Dragon, Sahara, Inca Gold, Shock Wave, Flood Tide, Atlantis Found, Valhalla Rising, Trojan Odyssey and Black Wind (this last with his son, Dirk Cussler); the nonfiction books The Sea Hunters, The Sea Hunters II and Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed; the NUMA® Files novels Serpent, Blue Gold, Fire Ice, White Death and Lost City (written with Paul Kemprecos); and the Oregon Files novels Sacred Stone and Golden Buddha (written with Craig Dirgo) and Dark Watch (written with Jack Du Brul).

Clive Cussler died at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona on February 24, 2020.