DIRK PITTS FIRST MOST TERRIFYING ADVENTURE Dirk Pitt deathdefying adventurer and deepsea expert is put to the ultimate test as he plunges into the perilous waters of the Pacific Vortexa fogshrouded area where dozens of ships have vanished without a trace. The latest victim is the awesome supersub Starbuck bearing Americas deepdiving nuclear arsenal. Its loss poses an unthinkable threat to national defense. Pitts job is to find it and salvage it before international forces beat him to the prize or the sea explodes in a nuclear blastwhichever comes first. Pitts mission also leads him into the arms of Summer Moran the most stunningly exotic and dangerous woman ever to enter his life. As the countdown heads toward disaster Pitt has no choice but to descend through the sharkinfested depths to an ancient sunken island from which he may never again emerge to see the light of day. show more