On orders from the Pentagon, marine explorer Dirk Pitt must salvage crucial material from the world''s most infamous maritime disaster in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.

The President''s secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on an extremely rare radioactive element--and Dirk Pitt has followed a twisted trail to a secret cache of the substance. Now, racing against brutal storms, Soviet spies, and a ticking clock, Pitt begins his most thrilling mission--to raise from its watery grave the shipwreck of the century...