In the final pages of Valhalla Rising, Dirk Pitt discovered, to his
shock, that he had two grown children he had never known-twenty-three-year-old
fraternal twins born to a woman he thought had died in an underwater earthquake.
Both have inherited his love of the sea: the girl, Summer, is a marine
biologist; the boy, himself named Dirk, is a marine engineer. And now they are
about to help their father in the adventure of a lifetime.
There is a brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua. The twins
are working in a NUMA underwater enclosure, trying to determine its origin,
when two startling things happen: Summer discovers an artifact, something
strange and beautiful and ancient; and the worst storm in years boils up out of
the sky, heading straight not only for them but also for a luxurious floating
resort hotel square in its path.
The peril for everybody concerned is incalculable, and, desperately, Pitt, Al
Giordino, and the rest of the NUMA crew rush to the rescue, but what they
find in the storm's wake makes the furies of nature pale in comparison. For
there is an all-too-human evil at work in that part of the world, and the brown
tide is only a by-product of its plan. Soon, its work will be complete-and the
world will be a very different place.
Though if Summer's discovery is to be believed, the world is already a very
different place…
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