Dirk Pitt--"oceanography's answer to Indiana Jones"*--responds to a
Mayday signal from a deserted ship and gets drawn towards a deadly Cold
War secret in this thriller in Clive Cussler's #1 New York
Times-bestselling series.
Dirk Pitt, the director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is
on the Black Sea, helping to locate a lost Ottoman shipwreck, when he
responds to an urgent Mayday--"Under attack!"--from a nearby freighter.
But when he and his colleague Al Giordino arrive, there is nobody there.
Just dead bodies and a smell of sulfur in the air. As Pitt and Giordino
explore, a blast from the stern scuttles the ship swiftly, almost taking
them with it.
The more the two of them search for the secret of the death ship, the
deeper they descend into an extraordinary series of discoveries. A
desperate attempt in 1917 to preserve the wealth and power of the
Romanov Empire. A Cold War bomber lost with a deadly cargo. A brilliant
developer of advanced drone technology on an unknown mission. Modern-day
nuclear smugglers, determined Ukrainian rebels, a beautiful
anti-terrorism agent from Europol--all will combine to present Pitt with
the most dangerous challenge of his career.
And not only Pitt. His two children, marine engineer Dirk and
oceanographer Summer, are exploring a mysterious shipwreck of their own,
when they are catapulted into his orbit. The three of them are used to
perilous situations--but this time, they may have found their match.
