Clive Cussler · 1984 · global

Clive Cussler's 1984 Dirk Pitt adventure. A ghost ship leaking a deadly nerve agent off Alaska, and the disappearance of the President from his own yacht on the Potomac, are two ends of a single conspiracy. Dirk Pitt traces the thread of a ruthless Asian shipping empire from the icy north to Washington and a fiery climax in the bayous of the Mississippi Delta.

1. 1
   Alaska

   Off the coast of Alaska a poison tide begins killing everything it touches, and NUMA traces it to a derelict freighter on the sea floor, its holds leaking a deadly nerve agent - the first thread of a vast and sinister conspiracy.

2. 2
   Washington

   On the Potomac, the President and three of the nation's leaders vanish from the yacht, replaced by a sunken lookalike. Dirk Pitt is pulled from the poison hunt to unravel a kidnapping that threatens the government.

3. 3
   Mississippi Delta

   Both trails lead to the Bougainville shipping empire, and Pitt follows them to a blazing reckoning in the Mississippi Delta, racing to free the captive leaders and break the plot before the republic is subverted.