Overview
A PLUNDERED TREASURE IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS . . . A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION IN THE PACIFIC . . . AN EVIL PLOT TO BRING THE WEST TO ITS KNEES!
A Japanese cargo ship bound for the United States is instantly, thunderously vaporized by Japanese fanatics with a chilling plan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. While Washington bureaucrats scramble, a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from a secret island control center. But from the ocean depths, NUMA agent DIRK PITT® is igniting a daring counterattack. Battling death-dealing robots and a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors, Pitt alone controls the West’s secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave of destruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor!
Synopsis
Japan, 1945: Two U.S. bombers take off with atomic bombs.
Only one gets through.
The Pacific, 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the United
States is instantly, thunderously vaporized, taking with it a
Norwegian vessel. Japanese fanatics have developed a chilling
plan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. From the
ocean depths to the discovery of cache of lost Nazi loot,
DIRK PITT is untangling a savage conspiracy and igniting a
daring counterattack. While Washington bureaucrats scramble,
a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from a
secret island control center. And DIRK PITT, the dauntless
hero of Sahara and Inca Gold, is taking on death-dealing robots
and a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors. Pitt
alone controls the West's secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave of
destruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor!