Clive Cussler · 2012 · global
Clive Cussler's 2012 Dirk Pitt adventure. When the plans for the US Navy's revolutionary new submarine are stolen and cargo ships start vanishing at sea, Dirk Pitt uncovers a ruthless tycoon's scheme to corner the world's rare-earth minerals. The chase runs from Washington down to the Panama Canal and on to the icy tip of Tierra del Fuego, where a lost WWII wreck holds the key.
- 1Washington
In Washington, the designers of the Navy's submarine Poseidon's Arrow are murdered and its plans stolen - and as cargo ships vanish at sea, Dirk Pitt is drawn into a hunt for a tycoon and a hijacked supply of rare-earth minerals.
- 2The Panama Canal
The trail leads to Panama, where the villain Bolcke runs a hidden slave compound and where the stolen engine is to be smuggled through the Canal - and Pitt must stop it, even at the cost of a shattered lock and a raging flood.
- 3Tierra del Fuego
Far south at the icy tip of Tierra del Fuego, Dirk and Summer find a WWII Italian submarine long lost - and in its hull the source of the rare earths, the last piece of a conspiracy that could tip the balance of the world.