Clive Cussler · 1999 · global

Clive Cussler's 1999 Dirk Pitt adventure. Strange relics of an ancient, advanced civilization are surfacing across the globe, and a blast in a Colorado mine nearly kills Pitt among its inscriptions. The trail leads to the frozen wreck of a whaler and to Antarctica itself, where the ruins of a lost Atlantis - and a Fourth Reich bent on triggering an apocalypse - await at the bottom of the world.

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   Colorado

   Deep in a Colorado mine, anthropologists uncover a wall of strange inscriptions left by a lost civilization - and an explosion seals Dirk Pitt and the team underground as black-clad killers move in to bury the secret forever.

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   The Weddell Sea

   The clues point to the far south, to the frozen wreck of an old whaler adrift in the Antarctic ice, its crew long dead beside crates of impossible antiquities and a skull carved from black obsidian.

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   Antarctica

   Beneath the Antarctic ice lie the ruins of Atlantis - and the hidden empire of a Fourth Reich, heirs to the Nazis, who mean to ride out a man-made apocalypse and remake the world. Pitt must reach them before they tip the poles.