Clive Cussler · 1986 · sea

Clive Cussler's 1986 Dirk Pitt adventure. A millionaire's treasure-hunting blimp vanishes over the Caribbean, and Dirk Pitt's search for it leads to a fortune in lost Spanish gold - the fabled La Dorada - and into a lethal Cold War intrigue swirling around Cuba. From the Florida Straits to the streets of Havana, Pitt is caught between superpowers on the brink of war.

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   Key West

   When a millionaire's blimp vanishes on a treasure hunt over the Caribbean, Dirk Pitt sets out from the Florida Keys to find it - and picks up the trail of a golden statue, La Dorada, lost with a Spanish galleon.

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   The wreck

   In the shark-haunted waters off the coast of Cuba, Pitt tracks the treasure to a drowned wreck - but the salvage plunges him into the middle of a tense Cold War standoff between Washington, Moscow and Havana.

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   Havana

   The trail leads ashore into Havana, where a Soviet-backed plot and a secret American gambit collide, and Pitt must navigate the intrigues of Fidel Castro's Cuba to keep two superpowers from going over the brink into war.