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 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 Vortexl