A Dirk Pitt adventure with an underwater graveyard in the Pacific
Northwest, a mysterious seaport in the Louisiana bayous, and a
diabolical plot to destroy America!
When NUMA agent Dirk Pitt rescues a beautiful undercover agent in a
daring underwater operation at Orion Lake, just north of Seattle, he
confronts a sinister network run by Qin Shang, a ruthless smuggler who
sells Chinese immigrants into slavery. Shang's campaign contributions
have bought him a collection of powerful U.S. politicians, but Pitt is
not a man to be subverted by politics. As he moves to probe Shang's
mystifying seaport in the Louisiana bayous, his investigation involves
him in an adrenaline-pumped race up the Mississippi River and a
desperate dash to recover sunken Chinese treasures lost half a century
before. And in Qin Shang, Pitt faces ones of his most formidable foes--a
madman bent on killing thousands of innocent civilians with a
catastrophic surge of mass destruction.