In 1954, Vixen 03 went missing. Thirty-four years later, the world has to pay the price…..

          Over thirty years ago, on an ultra-secret flight to the South Pacific, the transport plane Vixen 03 vanished. Believed lost at sea. And carrying canisters of the most lethal substance known to Man. 

          Now Vixen 03 has returned to haunt the world. Dirk Pitt, the ace maritime troubleshooter who raised the Titanic, is the only man who can overcome the nightmarish problems involved in retrieving her cargo. And the price of a failure is terrifying. 

          For the mysterious ghost-plane does not lie beneath the ocean but in a different watery grave. And her lethal cargo has become a deadly element in a blood-chilling international contest of terror which ranges from the violent plains of Africa to the fearfully vulnerable heart of the civilized West…..