A TRAIL OF VICIOUS MURDERS... A MAZE OF STOLEN CARGOES... A PLOT AS COLD AND RUTHLESS AS THE SEA! A deadly tide of poison flows into ocean waters. A ghost ship drifts across the empty northern Pacific. A luxury Soviet liner blazes into a funeral pre. The Presidential yacht cruises the Potomac night-and the President disappears without a trace. Dirk Pitt, the swashbuckling hero in Cussler bestsellers from Raise the Titanic! to Pacific Vortex, returns in an intercontinental duel of nerves with a sinister Asian shipping empire. In his most dangerous, fast-paced adventure, he fights to save the U.S. government-and to seize one desperate moment of revenge!