Pacific Vortex! (Dirk Pitt, Book 1) by Clive Cussler

By Clive Cussler

Dirk Pitt sequence, ebook #1

Fully armed and with all fingers on board, the nuclear submarine Starbuck sailed into the calm Pacific Ocean for sea trials - and vanished. No wreckage, no indications, no survivors: not anything ...until ace maritime troubleshooter Dirk Pitt unearths a unmarried, chilling clue within the shark-torn surf off Hawaii - the log of the Starbuck. 'Do now not look for us, it could basically lead to useless ...' A crazed magazine of insanity and dying is all that is still. And the Captain's ultimate, scrawled, fear-crazed be aware locates the Starbuck's grave 1000s of miles from her final identified place! the hunt for the Starbuck plunges Dirk Pitt into his such a lot shattering task so far - a whirlpool of deep-sea secret and terror - the Pacific Vortex!

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