A New York Times Bestselling Author A New York Times Bestselling Author A Dirk Pitt Adventure It is the greatest advance in American defense technology in decades — an attack submarine capable of incredible underwater speeds. There's only one problem: a key element of the prototype is missing‚ and the man who developed it is dead. At the same time‚ ships have started vanishing mid-ocean‚ usually never to be found again. But when they are‚ bodies are found aboard burned to a crisp. What is going on? It's up to Dirk Pitt and his team to find the truth.