Cussler, Clive

Dirk Pitt, the Special Projects Director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, becomes involved in a perilous mission when he is sent to find and salvage a deep-diving nuclear submarine that has inexplicably disappeared in the Pacific Ocean.

Dirk Pitt, an operative for NUMA, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is called into action when a long-missing luxury yacht is found frozen in a million-ton mass of ice, its crew members incinerated at their posts, and its deadly top-secret cargo missing.

An investigation into the sudden deaths of rare whales sends National Underwater Marine Agency crew leader Kurt Austin to the Mexican coast, where he and his crew stumble upon a white goddess legend and an eco-extortionist set on controlling the world's fresh-water supply.

Kurt Austin and the special assignments team of the National Underwater & Marine Agency are called upon to intervene when a billionaire tycoon who plans to proclaim himself czar of Russia attempts to divert attention from his activities by setting off pockets of methane hydrate, known as "fire ice," along the coast of the United States.

Dirk Pitt races to save the future of the world when he is assigned by the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency to find the link between the 1858 discovery of an aged wreck full of crates of antiquities, and two modern-day incidents that claimed the lives of a team of anthropologists and almost sank a NUMA vessel.