New Releases by Jack du Brul

1914. Gli Stati Uniti stanno per realizzare una delle loro imprese più colossali, il Canale di Panama, destinato a rivoluzionare il commercio mondiale e a portare enormi guadagni, prestigio e potere. Uno dei più convinti sostenitori dell’opera è il senatore J. William Densmore, che si attira ben presto l’odio di chi si oppone al progetto. Ma tutto quest’odio non ha fatto i conti con Isaac Bell, detective dell’agenzia Van Dorn, che possiede un talento peculiare: trovarsi nel posto sbagliato al momento giusto. Come quando a San Diego sventa un attentato il cui obiettivo era proprio il senatore Densmore. Questo episodio è solo il primo tassello di una elaborata strategia che minaccia la sicurezza e la stabilità degli USA. Chi voleva che il senatore morisse? Bell parte per Panama per indagare sulle tracce delle Vipere Rosse, un gruppo insurrezionale che si oppone alle mire statunitensi. Il detective dovrà ricorrere a tutto il suo ingegno e al suo coraggio per porre fine al complotto dei sabotatori, da cui dipendono milioni di dollari e il destino di due nazioni. Con il suo stile unico, Clive Cussler dà vita a un nuovo thriller storico avvincente, pieno di suspense, azione mozzafiato e continui colpi di scena.

Colorado, 1911. Nove operai muoiono nella miniera di Little Angel in circostanze misteriose. Il detective privato Isaac Bell, incaricato di far luce sulla vicenda, si rende ben presto conto che quelle morti sono solo un risvolto di un enigma più inquietante. Tutto sembra infatti ruotare attorno a un prezioso e raro elemento chimico, il bizanio, e ad alcuni uomini senza scrupoli disposti a tutto pur di entrarne in possesso. Le indagini condurranno il detective al molo di Southampton, in Inghilterra, dove un transatlantico appena uscito dai cantieri, un vero gioiello della tecnologia, è pronto a salpare per il suo viaggio inaugurale oltreoceano, trasportando nella stiva un carico inestimabile. New York, oggi. Durante le operazioni di recupero di una parte del carico del Titanic, Dirk Pitt viene in possesso di una testimonianza di Isaac Bell che gli rivelerà informazioni sconvolgenti sul disastro della miniera in Colorado del 1911. Con un’alleanza che unisce due epoche lontane più di cent’anni, Bell e Pitt lotteranno per dissipare ogni mistero in una missione che si concluderà solo con il fatidico primo e ultimo viaggio del Titanic…

Detective Isaac Bell faces the horrors of the Great War while battling a mysterious anarchist group intent on bringing brutality to the shores of America in the next thrilling adventure in this #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler. Van Dorn agent Isaac Bell knows that when the President of the United States asks you to undertake a special mission, the only appropriate answer is, “Right away, sir.” As an official observer, Bell is supposed to avoid action, but that’s like asking a fish to shun water. After battling in the trenches, he finds himself flying beside a group of Allied aviators, unwilling to let them fight alone, even when they are faced with capture. Bell and his compatriots are imprisoned in a medieval castle—one that’s withstood the test of time and countless assaults by conventional weapons in its history. Escape lies tantalizingly close…but only with the help of the latest in battlefield technology. But freedom may be short-lived. Even in the middle of a World War, Bell finds there are forces worse than those arrayed against the Americans on the battlefield. Opponents who are so evil that they are willing to set aside whatever rules of war still exist to take the fight to where they think it belongs: the streets of the United States. And there’s only one man who can stop them…Isaac Bell.

«Un magistrale protagonista dell''avventura, non solo scritta ma anche vissuta.» Corriere della Sera «I romanzi di Clive Cussler sono come quei blockbuster cinematografici che vorresti snobbare ma no, devi ammettere che vincono loro.» la Repubblica - Franco Bolelli All''inizio è solo un puntino sul radar della Oregon, la nave ipertecnologica capitanata da Juan Cabrillo, di ritorno da una missione top secret in Iran. Un puntino che segnala un''imbarcazione alla deriva. Eppure nessuno ha raccolto SOS. Cabrillo, che è sempre pronto a intervenire quando si tratta di difendere il mare e chi sul mare vive e lavora, decide di vederci chiaro. Ma nemmeno lui, che ha vissuto avventure di ogni genere, è pronto a ciò che lo aspetta. Il ponte della Golden Dawn è disseminato di cadaveri, così come la sala macchine, l''infermeria, il salone delle feste e ogni angolo dell''elegante nave da crociera. Il virus - se di virus si tratta - sembra aver colpito nel bel mezzo di una festa, visto che tutti i morti sono in eleganti abiti da sera. Chi - o che cosa - può aver causato un simile massacro? Ma per Cabrillo non c''è da risolvere solo il terrificante mistero della nave dei morti. Il figlio del suo vice Max Hanley è infatti scomparso dopo essere stato plagiato dai responsivisti, una setta che predica la sterilizzazione dei propri membri per risolvere il problema della sovrappopolazione sulla Terra. E forse il fatto che a bordo della Golden Dawn ci fosse una convention di responsivisti non è un caso?

Detective Isaac Bell faces an attack on the Federal Reserve in this all-new adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler. 1914: As America’s century of dominance dawns, the country’s greatest detective, Van Dorn agent Isaac Bell, is pitted against a master thief and his assassin accomplice. They’re plotting to pull off the greatest heist in America’s history: the theft of a billion dollars from the newly created Federal Reserve. When an aerial attack is launched against Woodrow Wilson’s yacht during a meeting among the Federal Reserve’s branch leaders, Bell thwarts it, only to find that the strike was just the opening of an even deadlier gambit. It’s up to Bell to find the link between the attack, the mysterious death of a Newport heiress, and growing evidence of an unimaginably audacious heist. Double-cross and betrayal are Bell’s stock and trade, but this time, the deeper he delves into the puzzle, the less he seems to understand. He is in a race against his most ruthless opponent yet, to prevent a financial panic that would bring the United States to its knees.

Dieser Coup wird die aufstrebende Weltmacht USA in die Knie zwingen! Der neue Fall für Amerikas Meisterdetektiv Isaac Bell. 1914: Der Privatdetektiv Isaac Bell verhindert ein brutales Attentat auf US-Präsident Woodrow Wilson. Doch dann findet er heraus, dass der Präsident gar nicht das eigentliche Ziel war. Der Killer hatte es auf den ebenfalls anwesenden Vorstand der neu gegründeten US-Notenbank Federal Reserve abgesehen. Und so stößt Bell auf die Spur des größten Raubs der amerikanischen Geschichte. Ein Meisterdieb und seine mörderischen Komplizen haben die Federal Reserve ins Visier genommen, um sie um eine Milliarde Dollar zu erleichtern. Und sollten sie Erfolg haben, würden sie die USA damit wirtschaftlich vernichten. Ein tödliches Rennen für Isaac Bell beginnt! Jeder Band ein Bestseller und einzeln lesbar. Lassen Sie sich die anderen Fälle von Isaac Bell, Amerikas fähigstem Privatermittler, nicht entgehen, zum Beispiel die packenden Action-Abenteuer »Das Panama-Attentat« oder »Seewölfe«.

Dieci anni prima il satellite Medusa viene lanciato nell’atmosfera per mappare la geologia del territorio centro-africano. In soli tre minuti e mezzo, il Medusa passa dal sommo successo a un irrimediabile disastro. Mentre cade dallo spazio e viene avviluppato da un’incandescente palla di fuoco bianca, il satellite studia l’incolta e arida terra africana. Sotterrato da tonnellate di roccia e pietra, vede qualcosa che l’uomo aveva nascosto più di duemila anni addietro nella speranza che nessuno gli avrebbe mai permesso di scappare. Come la sua antica omonima, lo sguardo del Medusa avrebbe portato la morte. Un’altra sfida all’ultimo respiro per Mercer, ingegnere e consulente minerario dalle capacità leggendarie al culmine della carriera.

En ung nazisoldat gør en usædvanlig opdagelse, da han under 2. verdenskrig i en gletsjer finder det mest legendariske skib nogensinde. 60 år senere er Juan Cabrillo og hans agenttrænede mandskab på det tophemmelige militærskib Oregon på vej mod deres mest ekstraordinære mission til dato. De støder på et krydstogtskib, hvor alle passagerer på nær én er døde. Cabrillo beslutter sig for at grave dybere ned i mysteriet og støder på en mystisk og magtfuld kult, som har uhyggelige planer for menneskeheden. Planer, det måske allerede er for sent at stoppe. Pestskibet er den tredje bog i Clive Cusslers bestseller-serie om Juan Cabrillo og Oregon-skibet. Tidligere er udkommet Den gyldne Buddha og Skeletkysten.

Den amerikanske udenrigsministers fly er styrtet ned på vej til topmøde i Libyen. CIA stoler ikke på libyerne og hyrer derfor Juan Cabrillo og hans agenttrænede besætning til at finde flyet – og deres bange anelser viser sig at være berettigede. Cabrillo og hans mandskab finder flyet, men diplomaten er forsvundet på grund af en forræderisk libysk minister med sin egen dagsorden. En dagsorden, som Cabrillo er nødt til at sætte en stopper for. Men hvad er forbindelsen til et søslag for 200 år siden og de endnu ældre islamiske skriftruller, som libyerne er så opsatte på at finde? Svarene fører Cabrillo tilbage i historiens mørke og ind i en voldsom kamp mod nutidige korsarer – og nationers skæbne afgøres på havets bølger. Den internationale bestseller-forfatter Clive Cussler leverer spænding og nutidigt eventyr i højt tempo og med et plot, der kan være taget fra dagens globale nyhedsoverskrifter. Pressen skriver: »Fart over feltet og galopperende spænding! « – Søndag

I 1896 flygtede fire englændere med deres bytte, en formue i uslebne diamanter, gennem den nådesløse Kalahari-ørken, stærkt forfulgt af en afrikansk stamme. Det lykkedes de fire mænd at komme om bord på det ventende HMS Rove, men en storm blæste op, og skibet forsvandt med alle ombordværende. Juan Cabrillo og hans besætning på det ombyggede fragtskib, Oregon, er med nød og næppe sluppet helskindet fra en mission på Congo-floden, da de opfanger et nødkald fra et skib, der er kommet under beskydning ud for den afrikanske kyst. Cabrillo kommer den smukke Sloane Macintyre til undsætning og erfarer bagefter, at hun var på skattejagt og håbede at finde det forsvundne skib med dets last af diamanter. Det undrer Cabrillo, at Macintyres skib blev beskudt, før hun havde fundet skatten. Det undrer ham endnu mere at høre om gigantiske slanger af metal, der huserer i det samme område, hvor hun har søgt. Dette er åbenbart en skattejagt, som for enhver pris skal stoppes, men det skal man ikke sige to gange til Cabrillo! Skeletkysten er den anden bog i Clive Cusslers bestseller-serie om Juan Cabrillo og Oregon-skibet. Tidligere er udkommet Den gyldne Buddha.

Detective Isaac Bell''s investigation into an attempted assassination brings him to the construction site of the Panama Canal--and straight into a nest of vipers--in the latest adventure in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series from Clive Cussler. Detective Isaac Bell''s wife has said that he is always in the wrong place at the right time. This is certainly the case when Bell thwarts the assassination of a U.S. Senator shortly after meeting the man. This heroic rescue is just the start of the mystery for Bell, who suspects that the would-be assassins have a much larger and more dangerous agenda--one involving the nearly constructed Panama Canal. While the senator supports the building of the canal, there are many, including a local Panamanian insurgency known as the Red Vipers, who never want to see its completion. With millions of dollars and the fates of two nations at stake, Bell heads to Panama to find answers. After a deadly bombing at the canal''s construction site, he is determined to stop the insurgents--or whoever is funding them--before they can attack again.

When Isaac Bell attempts to decipher the forbidding deaths of nine men, he encounters a secret so powerful it could dictate the fate of the world in this riveting thriller by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. A century apart, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and detective Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time. In the present day, Pitt makes a daring rescue from inside an antiquated submersible in the waters off New York City. His reward afterwards is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell--a document that re-opens a historical mystery... In 1911, in Colorado, Isaac Bell is asked to look into an unexplained tragedy at Little Angel Mine, in which nine people died. His dangerous quest to answer the riddle leads to a larger puzzle centered on byzanium, a rare element with extraordinary powers and of virtually incalculable value. As he discovers that there are people who will do anything to control the substance, Isaac Bell will find out just how far he''ll go to stop them.

Philip Mercer, ingegnere minerario, si trova nella Repubblica Centrafricana alla ricerca di metalli preziosi. Il paese è alle prese con una guerra civile e mentre Mercer aiuta gli abitanti di un villaggio a scappare dalle forze ribelli, incontra Cali Stowe, una ricercatrice che lavora per i Centri per la prevenzione e il controllo delle malattie. La donna si trova in Africa per capire come mai quel villaggio presenta uno dei più alti tassi di tumore in tutto il mondo. Ciò suscita l’interesse di Mercer.Una volta tornato negli Stati Uniti, si ingegna per trovare delle risposte. Mercer s’imbarca così in un’avventura che lascerà una città in fiamme e svelerà la verità che si cela dietro tremila anni di leggende.

Durante la seconda guerra mondiale, in una base sottomarina nazista, furono nascosti al-cuni container interamente realizzati con l’oro saccheggiato in guerra. Il “tesoro” lì custodito non constava di forzieri d’oro massiccio, ma di un manufatto così letale che chi possedeva “le casse di Pandora” aveva il potere di scatenare l’inferno sulla terra... Nelle inospitali distese della Groenlandia, il geologo Philip Mercer scopre una base abban-donata dell’esercito statunitense sepolta sotto il ghiaccio e un cadavere ancora carico di potenti radiazioni. Prima che lui e la seducente dotto-ressa Anika Klein possano indagare più a fondo, vengono travolti da un susseguirsi di eventi con un ritmo vertiginoso. Una potente società tede-sca ha lanciato un’operazione per distruggere la prova del suo passato nazista. Ma uno dei mer-cenari aziendali conosce il contenuto delle casse di Pandora e trama di tenere il mondo intero in ostaggio, a meno che Mercer non riesca a trova-re un modo per fermarlo...

Nel cuore di Panama esiste un lago vulcanico che alimenta un lungo fiume serpeggiante. I suoi argini rocciosi sono stati creati dagli Inca, che riuscirono a riappropriarsi dell’oro e dei gioielli rubati dai conquistatori. La leggenda narra che il “tesoro rubato due volte” sia sepolto da secoli nel bel mezzo della giungla panamense. Riportarlo alla luce significa affrontare le imprevedibili acque del fiume della rovina... Il romanzo ha inizio in una casa d’aste di Parigi, dove il geologo Philip Mercer riceve in dono da un vecchio amico un prezioso diario, scritto all’epoca in cui i francesi cercarono di scavare il canale di Panama. Ma Mercer non è il solo a desiderarlo: tre sicari cinesi, incaricati di recuperarlo, lo costringeranno a giocare al gatto e al topo dando il via così ad una frenetica fuga. Mercer capisce di trovarsi al centro di un piano complesso messo a punto dai cinesi per sovvertire gli equilibri di potere a livello mondiale. Solo il coraggioso geologo – con l’aiuto della bellissima ufficiale dell’esercito statunitense Lauren Vanik, un reparto speciale della Legione straniera francese e uno scontroso capitano di mare in pensione di nome Harry White – può salvare le sorti del mondo.

Geologist and adventurer Philip Mercer is visiting an old friend who’s working far down in Minnesota’s Leister Deep Mine—but he arrives too late to save Abe Jacobs and his climate-research team from a shocking, brutal attack. Mercer vows to seek revenge as well as answers, hoping to pick up Jacobs’s search for a cache of the rare crystals known as lightning stones—rumored to have been aboard Amelia Earhart’s plane when it vanished in 1937. From a harrowing close call in the Midwestern U.S. to a nailbiting showdown in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, to a remote island in the middle of the Pacific, Mercer must race to stay ahead of a team of highly-trained assassins—and to figure out if he’s chasing a rare scientific discovery, or merely a historical fairy tale.

When a high-profile Russian prisoner warns of a deadly weapon designed by one of America''s greatest inventors, Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew must race to uncover the truth in this adventure in the #1 New York Times–bestselling series. In October 1943, a U.S. destroyer sailed out of Philadelphia and supposedly vanished, the result of a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation. The story was considered a hoax—but now Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon colleagues aren’t so sure. There is talk of a new weapon soon to be auctioned, something very dangerous to America’s interests, and the rumors link it to the great inventor Nikola Tesla, who was working with the Navy when he died in 1943. Was he responsible for the experiment? Are his notes in the hands of enemies? As Cabrillo races to find the truth, he discovers there is even more at stake than he could have imagined—but by the time he realizes it, he may already be too late.

Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew are hired to save a wealthy Indonesian businessman''s son from the influence of the Taliban in this #1 New York Times-bestselling adventure series. Jungles come in many forms. There are the steamy rain forests of the Burmese highlands. There are the lies and betrayals of the world of covert operations. And there are the dark and twisted thoughts of a man bent on near-global domination. To pull off their latest mission, Cabrillo and his remarkable men and women must survive them all. A devastating weapon unleashed in thirteenth-century China . . . a daring rescue in the snowbound mountains along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border . . . a woman gone missing in the jungles of northern Thailand and Myanmar . . . for Cabrillo and company, all of these events will come together—leading to the greatest threat the United States has ever known.

Chairman of the Corporation Juan Cabrillo and his mercenary crew steer theOregon into battle against a militant leader and his cult-like followers in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the covert combat ship Oregon have barely escaped a mission on the Congo River when they intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast. Still smarting from a weapons-trade gone bad and a double-cross, Cabrillo takes action. He manages to save the beautiful Sloane Macintyre, who''s on a mission of her own, looking for a long-submerged ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds. But what surprises Cabrillo is her story about a crazy fisherman who claims to have been attacked on the open sea by giant metal snakes in the same area. What begins as a snake hunt leads Cabrillo onto the trail of a far more lethal quarry—a deranged militant and his followers who plan to unleash the devastating power of nature itself against all who oppose them.

Baie de Tripoli, 1803. L’Intrepid est abordé par le Saqr, le navire du redoutable pirate Suleiman Al-Jama, et une terrible bataille s’ensuit, risquant d’engloutir à jamais le fabuleux trésor... De nos jours. L’avion de la secrétaire d’État américaine s’écrase alors que celle-ci se rend à un sommet pour la paix en Libye. La CIA ne se fie guère aux premières conclusions officielles des autorités libyennes et décide d’engager Juan Cabrillo et ses hommes pour mener l’enquête. Les débris localisés, l’équipe de l’Oregon s’aperçoit vite que la secrétaire d’État n’est pas au nombre des victimes... Leurs recherches vont les mener sur la trace de terroristes prêts à tout pour faire échouer le processus de paix et se transforment bientôt en une chasse au trésor qui pourrait bien bouleverser le cours de l’Histoire...

A bord de l’Oregon, un navire de guerre recelant les gadgets les plus sophistiqués, les membres de la Corporation, emmenés par Juan Cabrillo, protègent au péril de leur vie les intérêts occidentaux. Alors que Cabrillo vient de terminer une mission à haut risque dans une base militaire iranienne, il découvre en pleine mer un navire de croisière, jonché de centaines de corps sans vie. L’équipe de l’Oregon s’est à peine échappée avec la seule survivante, que déjà le bateau coule, et en-gloutit avec lui toute trace du forfait. Des Philippines aux eaux de la Méditerranée et aux fjords de Norvège, Juan et ses hommes vont tout faire pour découvrir le sombre complot qui se cache derrière ce meurtre de masse et mettre un terme aux desseins mortels de ses commanditaires...

Ex-CIA ship captain Juan Cabrillo leads the crew of the Oregon on a quest to save a kidnapped politician in this adventure in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Corsairs are pirates, and pirates come in many different varieties. There are the pirates who fought off the Barbary Coast in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the contemporary pirates who infest the waters of Africa and Asia, and the pirates...who look like something else. When the U.S. secretary of state’s plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Juan Cabrillo to search for her, and their misgivings are well founded. The crew locates the plane, but the secretary of state has vanished. It turns out Libya’s new foreign minister has other plans for the conference, plans that Cabrillo cannot let happen. But what does it all have to do with a two- hundred- year-old naval battle and the centuries-old Islamic scrolls that the Libyans seem so determined to find? The answers will lead him full circle into history, and into another pitched battle on the sea, this time against Islamic terrorists, and with the fate of nations resting on its outcome.

Chairman Juan Cabrillo and the rest of the Corporation''s mercenaries fight to stop a corrupt activist group from unleashing a viral attack in this #1 New York Times-bestselling adventure from the Oregon Files. Captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo and manned by a crew of former military and spy personnel, the Oregon is a private enterprise, available for any government agency that can afford it. They''ve just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf when they come across a cruise ship adrift at sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and, as Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship. Barely able to escape with his own life and that of the liner’s sole survivor, Cabrillo finds himself plunged into a mystery as intricate – and as perilous – as any he has ever known and pitted against a cult with monstrously lethal plans for the human race . . . plans he may already be too late to stop

Eine schlagkräftige Crew um den früheren Militär- und Geheimdienstagenten Juan Cabrillo kämpft gegen die schlimmen Geschäfte von Piraten, die Tausende chinesische Flüchtlinge als Sklaven in Goldbergwerken missbrauchen.

New Jersey, 1937: A homicidal madman bears a safe holding a terrible secret that is thought lost when fiery fate intervenes. Decades later, the discovery of that secret is about to threaten the world once more.... Mining engineer Philip Mercer is in the war-torn Central African Republic searching for precious metal. There, he meets Cali Stone, a field researcher for the CDC who is investigating why a certain village suffers from one of the highest rates of cancer in the world-a fact that intrigues Mercer. Once back in the states, Mercer''s search for answers leads him to a long-lost safe and a cryptic note inside that may reveal a three thousand year-old deception...

It begins deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, where a nuclear bomb strikes at the fiery hot heart of the earth. Churning, spewing boiling lava, a volcano rises with unnatural speed from the ocean floor -- the source of a new mineral that promises clean, limitless nuclear power. It continues in hot spots around the globe: Hawaii, where a secessionist movement is about to turn violent and the American army may be asked to fire on U.S. citizens; Washington, D.C., where the subway system becomes the site of a running gun battle; the Far East, where disrupted diplomatic negotiations jeopardize world peace; a rogue Russian submarine, circling the infant volcano. Caught in the middle is Philip Mercer, a geologist and a one-time commando with shady contacts in all the right (or is it wrong?) places. When Mercer learns that the daughter of an old friend is being kept under armed guard in a local hospital, he vows to rescue her, not knowing that this is the first step in unraveling the fantastic secrets of Vulcan''s Forge.

Juan Cabrillo and his crew aboard the Oregon take on modern-day pirates for a surprising new client in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous living working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the Far East to ask for Cabrillo''s special brand of assistance: a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia. Normally, such attacks on the high seas are limited to smaller ships and foreign-owned yachts-easy targets on the open ocean. Now, however, giant commercial freighters are disappearing. But when Cabrillo confronts the enemy, he learns that the pirates'' predations hide a deadly international conspiracy-a scheme of death and slavery that Juan Cabrillo is going to blow out of the water.

USA Today bestselling author Jack Du Brul brings back geologist-adventurer Philip Mercer for an apocalyptic adventure. Hired to lead the excavation of caverns deep beneath Area 51, Philip Mercer finds himself drilling straight into the epicenter of an age-old conspiracy. A reclusive order of Himalayan monks, through special knowledge of the earth’s tectonic movement, has predicted the end of the world—and it is determined to see the prediction unfold accordingly. Now, with icebergs floating through the South Pacific and a thermonuclear bomb set to destroy an island paradise, the stage is set for Armageddon—and it is up to Philip Mercer and the beautiful, mysterious Tisa Nguyan to prevent a cataclysm beyond imagination.