May 1914. Two top diplomats hurry home by sea & rail each carrying a document of world-changing importance. Then the liner Empress of India is sunk in a collision & the Manhattan-Line express plunges from a shattered bridge
- both dragging their VIP passengers to watery oblivion. Tragic coincidence
- or conspiracy? Seventy-five years later a chance revelation reopens the question. In the energy-starved fear-torn 1980s those long-lost papers could destroy whole nations & Dirk Pitt confronts his biggest challenge yet. Racing against time against hired killers
- & the horrors of the sea bed
- he launches his deep-sea search craft in the hunt for the documents. ' Night Probe' has begun.. .