Unknown Waters, 1948: The Princess Dou Wan, a sea-wearry cruiseship covertly seized by Chiang Kai-Shek, slams into a devastating storm that tears the hull a part and sends it and a mysterious cargo down into the depths, lost to all searchers for more than fifty years.
Pacific Northwest, 2000: Dirk Pitt rescues a beautiful undercover immigration agent from Qin Shang, an insatiably greedy smuggler whose vase fortune is made selling Chinese immigrants into slavery around the globe. Shang's campaign contributions have brought him a collection of powerful U.S. politicians, but Pitt finds the secret behind Shang's vast and mystifying seaport in the Louisiana bayou to be shockingly sinister. From an adrehaline pumped race against time and tide up the Mississippi River to a desperate dash to recover Chinese treasures, Dirk Pitt faces one of his most formidable foes--a madman bent on killing hundred's--of thousand's innocent men, women, and children with a catastrophic surge of mass destruction. |
