Dirk Pitt’s first, most terrific adventure! Dirk Pitt, death-defying adventurer and deep-sea expert, is out to the ultimate test as he plunges into the perilous waters of the Pacific Vortex — a fog-shrouded sea zone where dozens of ships have vanished without a trace. The latest victim is the awesome superb Starbuck, America’s deep-diving nuclear arsenal. Its loss poses an unthinkable threat to national defense. Pitt’s job is to find it, salvage it, before the sea explodes. In a furious race against time, Pitt’s mission swirls him into a battle with underwater assassins-and traps him in the arms of Summer Moran, the most stunningly exotic and dangerous toward disaster, Clive Cussler plummets his hero onto an ancient sunken island-the astonishing setting for the explosive climax of Pacific Vortex!
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Summary
Overall Published in 1983 This is the first book written by Cussler about Dirk Pitt, the character who is primary in many of his books, but it is the 6th that was Released. I liked the book but Cussler actually apologizes for it. Guess that’s why it wasn’t released first. As with all of the Dirk Pitt adventures, there is a nautical theme and NUMA, National Underwater and Marine Agency takes center stage. Pitt finds a communication capsule while sunbathing on a beach in Hawaii. (If you are going to Read these books you have to understand that Pitt must be the luckiest or unluckiest man in the world depending on how you look at it) with all of the incredible coincidences that happen to him and how he is ALWAYS at the right place at the right time.) The capsule contains a message from a sunken U.S. submarine. Dirk and the
team go into action to solve the mystery. As a note, The Pacific Vortex is an area much like the Bermuda Triangle according to rumors of disappearances.