Dirk Pitt discovers Atlantis, in a breathtaking novel from the grand master of adventure fiction.
September 1858: An Antarctic whaler stumbles on an aged wreck, its grisly frozen crew guarding crates of odd antiquities -- and a skull carved from black obsidian.
March 2001: A team of anthropologists gazes in awe at a wall of strange inscriptions, moments before a blast seals them deep within the Colorado rock.
April 2001: A research ship manned by Dirk Pitt is set upon and nearly sunk by an impossibility -- a vessel that should have died fifty-six years before.
The trap is set. The clock is ticking. And only one man stands between Earth and Armageddon.