0n the remote Greek Island of Thasos, a German
Albatros, a vintage World War I fighter plane,
has swooped out of the blazing blue sky to attack a
modern U.S. Air Force base, nearly destroying its fleet
of F-105 Starfire jets. Thirty miles offshore, piloting a
Catalina en route to the American scientific research
vessel First Attempt, Dirk Pitt hears and responds to
the Brady Field emergency call. He blows the Albatros
back into the oblivion from which it came, ripping open
a mammoth half-century-old conspiracy in the process.
Pitt has come to the Aegean to hunt down the mysterious
saboteur preying on "First Attempt" -- the ship's
mission is to search for a missing evolutionary link, a
rare and possibly extinct fish -- but connecting the
sabotage on board to the attack on Brady Field, Dirk Pitt
knows he's fishing for a shark: a human shark that
smells blood.
The adventure begins with Teri. She's a glamorous
modern Greek goddess in a red bikini, devastatingly
beautiful, devastatingly dangerous, and the key to a vast
drug-smuggling ring about to bring off a lethal billion-
dollar deal. As much as she's willing to reveal to Pitt,
there's one secret she holds back: the truth about a
missing Nazi war criminal now ruling over a corrupt
empire. For decades he has managed to elude international
authorities, remain one step ahead of the world's
top investigators, and destroy all his enemies, except
one: Dirk Pitt.
From a thrilling aerial dogfight to heart-stopping
hand-to-hand combat, Dirk Pitt follows a trail of blood,
treachery, and terror into the depths ofa cavernous
undersea labyrinth. There, in the legendary Pit of
Hades, the action explodes in a climax of unparalleled
excitement, as Pitt confronts the brilliance and brutali-
ty of a sinister nemesis with a genius for Death.
- ISBN10 1585470147
- ISBN13 9781585470143
- Publish Date 1 March 2001 (first published 1 February 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 December 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Center Point Publishing
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Language English