A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘Cussler is hard to beat’ Daily MailThe thirteenth adrenaline-filled Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler.A hundred and forty years after a British ship wrecks on the way to an Australian penal colony and the survivors discover diamonds on the tropical island where they wash up, Maeve Fletcher, one of their descendants, is … wash up, Maeve Fletcher, one of their descendants, is stranded on an island in Antarctica with a party of passengers after their cruise ship seemingly abandons them.
Dirk Pitt, on an expedition to find the source of a deadly plague that is killing dolphins and seals in the Weddell Sea, finds Maeve and the passengers and rescues them from death. When Pitt later uncovers the cause of the plague, he discovers that Maeve’s father, Arthur Dorsett, and her two sisters are responsible because of their diamond-mining technology. A deadly race develops to stop Dorsett from continuing his murderous mining operations and to head off a disaster that will kill millions. Pitt’s struggle to foil Dorsett’s ruthless plan to destroy the market for diamonds and thus gain a monopoly of his own takes him from harrowing adventures off the west coast of Canada to being cast adrift in the Tasman Sea.
‘Clive Cussler is the guy I read’ Tom Clancy
‘The Adventure King’ Daily Express
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All of Clive Cussler’s book are fun action packed with great characters
Loved it as I do all of Cusslers’ books. They are highly entertaining and fast paced of you like action and adventure.
Clive never lets me down. I haven’t found a book by him that wasn’t great.
Good Airplane trip read
Up tp par with Dirk Pitt adventures
Very good.
Like most Clive Cussler it’s a great read
Really??
Anything with Cusslers name on the cover will be an adventurous read!
To slow Way to much dialogue
I have always been a fan of cussler.
Always a great story from Clive Cusslet
I love all hiw books
Another Dirk Pitt winner
Clive Cussler is the master at writing action/adventure. His yarns are in a class by themselves.
was unhappy with ending, to some extent….
An older, but still enjoyable work by Clive Cussler
Classice Dirk Pitt adventure. Great story..
In my opinion, You can’t beat Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler and Dirk Pitt. I’ve read and reread every one of their books. Great stories every one.
Great adventure.