Clive Cussler · 2004 · global

Clive Cussler's 2004 Dirk Pitt adventure. In the last days of WWII, a Japanese submarine carrying a deadly virus vanishes in the North Pacific. Sixty years on, Dirk Pitt's children, Dirk Jr. and Summer, trace the lost boat from the icy Aleutians to the empire of a Korean magnate whose plot to unleash its cargo will draw them to a desperate stand over Los Angeles.

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   The Aleutians

   In the cold waters off the Aleutians, Dirk Pitt Jr. and his sister Summer find the wreck of a Japanese submarine lost in 1945 - and learn it once carried canisters of a deadly virus meant to devastate America's West Coast.

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   Korea

   The trail leads across the Pacific to a Korean shipping magnate, Dae-jong Kang, who has recovered the lost virus and means to use it - framing others while driving the Americans from the peninsula to reunify Korea under his hand.

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   Los Angeles

   Kang's scheme converges on Los Angeles, where the virus is to be loosed on the wind over a vast crowd. The Pitts race across land and sea for a desperate last stand to stop the plague before it can spread across the nation.