Fully armed & with all hands on board the nuclear submarine Starbuck sailed into the calm Pacific Ocean for sea trials
- & 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 & death is all that remains. & 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 & terror
- the Pacific Vortex!