A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ''Cussler is hard to beat'' Daily Mail The thrilling first Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel Clive Cussler. Fully armed and with all hands on board the nuclear submarine Starbuck sailed into the calm Pacific Ocean for sea trials - and vanished. No wreckage no signals no survivors: nothing. until ace maritime troubleshooter Dirk Pitt finds a single chilling clue in the shark-torn surf off Hawaii - the log of the Starbuck. ''Do not search for us it can only end in vain. '' A crazed journal of madness and death is all that remains. And the Captain''s final scrawled fear-crazed note locates the Starbuck''s grave hundreds of miles from her last known position The search for the Starbuck plunges Dirk Pitt into his most shattering assignment to date - a whirlpool of deep-sea mystery and terror - the Pacific Vortex ''Clive Cussler is the guy I read'' Tom Clancy ''The Adventure King'' Daily Express . Language: English