Part of Dirk Pitt®, book 20
First published 2008
NUMA director Dirk Pitt faces a deadly puzzle when unexplained deaths strike British Columbia while international tensions push America toward war with a close ally. Pitt believes these crises connect to a game-changing discovery that could reverse global warming, but time runs short as conflicts spiral toward violence. His children Dirk Jr. and Summer join the investigation, following their only lead: a strange silvery mineral linked to a doomed nineteenth-century search for the Northwest Passage. That expedition killed every man aboard, leaving no survivors to tell their story. Now Pitt and his partner Al Giordino must uncover what happened in those frozen waters before the same deadly forces claim new victims. Racing against political catastrophe and facing Arctic dangers that destroyed an entire crew, Pitt discovers that some secrets carry a price measured in nations.
Genres: adventure, mystery, thriller, action
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, race-against-time
Setting: British Columbia, Northwest Passage
Period: 19th-century, 21st-century
515 pages · Hardcover · Putnam Adult