{DEEP SIX}

A luxury cruise ship is found drifting in the Pacific with its entire crew dead and its sole passenger, the President of the United States, missing and presumed captured. NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt is pulled into an investigation that connects the ship to a chemical weapons plot and a shadowy organization determined to destabilize American politics at the highest level. Clive Cussler's seventh Dirk Pitt novel is among his most politically ambitious, putting the threat at the level of the presidency itself.

Scott Brick brings his practiced authority to the Cussler universe, navigating the novel's mix of ocean adventure, political conspiracy, and action-thriller momentum with the confidence of someone who has narrated the full sweep of the Pitt catalog. His command of the period setting, 1984 Washington during the Cold War, gives the geopolitical elements their proper weight. At just over fourteen hours, this is a propulsive entry in the long-running series.