In 1872 Phileas Fogg wins a bet by traveling around the world in seventy-nine days, twenty-three hours, and fifty-seven minutes.

Major Dirk Pitt is called to Greece to investigate the sabotage of a National Underwater Marine AgencyMission to find a fish with links to the prehistoric era, and discovers a web of conspiracy involving drug smuggleing , a beautiful woman, and a vengeful Nazi war criminal.

Through Tanzania and Zanzibar, into the rainforests of Madagascar, and across the Indian Ocean to Indonesia and the legendary site of the 1883 Krakatoa explosion, husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo and their ruthless opponents pursue the hunt for a relic--but only one can win. And the penalty for failure is death.

In France, an Englishman who placed a work-wanted ad in a newspaper lands a job involving him in a war with gangsters over a secret formula for artificially cultivating truffles. A comic adventure full of information on good things to eat, with romantic interest provided by a lady sergeant from the Israeli army.

Whisked through a portal to The Outskirts, an in-between world, sixth-grader Cole must rescue his friends and find his way back home--before his existence is forgotten.

Government bureaucrat Tristan Newberry discovers a file code-named "Prodigy" buried in an obscure Department of Agriculture box. What the file reveals about presidential candidate David Hallorin could swing the election. Soon Tristan is dead, and the file lands in the hands of Darby Moore, his former lover. Renegade FBI agent Mark Beamon is hired by Hallorin's team to find the elusive young woman. He eventually switches sides, joining Darby in an...