Clive Cussler · 1981 · global

Clive Cussler's 1981 Dirk Pitt adventure. A lost 1914 treaty could reshape a continent - but both copies went down in twin disasters, one aboard a liner sunk in the St. Lawrence, one aboard a train that plunged into the Hudson. As Britain races to bury it forever, Dirk Pitt dives into the depths of two rivers to raise the document that made two nations one.

1. 1
   The Hudson

   Word of a 1914 treaty between Britain and America sends Dirk Pitt to the Hudson River, hunting the Manhattan Limited - a train that plunged from a bridge with a copy of the document aboard.

2. 2
   The St. Lawrence

   The second copy lies in the St. Lawrence, in the drowned hull of the liner Empress of Ireland, and Pitt descends into the cold river to search her wreck - while British agents work to ensure the treaty is never brought to light.

3. 3
   Quebec

   With the recovered treaty in hand, its secret is carried to Quebec, where the fate of a continent turns on a document long buried in silt and darkness - a pact by which two great nations were quietly bound into one.