Clive Cussler · 1990 · global

Clive Cussler's 1990 Dirk Pitt adventure. When a car carrier explodes in the Pacific, NUMA's Dirk Pitt uncovers the Kaiten Project - a Japanese industrialist's scheme to plant nuclear bombs in cars around the globe and hold the world to ransom. From a wartime wreck off Palau to a hidden command center beneath a Japanese island, Pitt races to disarm a doomsday weapon.

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   The Pacific

   When a Japanese car carrier detonates in the open Pacific near Hawaii, spreading a lethal radioactive slick, NUMA's Dirk Pitt is sent to find out what sank her - and stumbles onto the trail of a nuclear conspiracy.

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   Palau

   Diving on a wartime Japanese wreck in the lagoons of Palau, Pitt pieces together the Kaiten Project: bombs concealed inside ordinary cars shipped to ports across the globe, ready to be triggered at a tyrant's whim.

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   Soseki Island

   The trail ends at a secret command center buried beneath Soseki Island near Japan, where the industrialist Hideki Suma waits - and where Pitt must break in and disarm a doomsday weapon before it holds the world hostage.