Clive Cussler · 1975 · global

Clive Cussler's 1975 Dirk Pitt adventure. Pulled from a California beach to the frozen North Atlantic, Dirk Pitt tunnels into a drifting iceberg to find a lost yacht sealed in the ice, its crew burned at their posts. The mystery draws him across the bleak tundra of Iceland and into a shadowy cabal of the world's rich, plotting to seize whole nations for themselves.

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   California

   Dirk Pitt is dragged from a sunlit California beach by an urgent call from NUMA: a long-missing luxury yacht has been found drifting in the far North Atlantic, sealed inside a million-ton iceberg like a fly in amber.

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   The iceberg

   Tunneling into the heart of the berg, Pitt reaches the frozen hulk and finds a horror within - the entire crew burned to death at their posts, and the ship's priceless, world-altering cargo already gone.

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   Iceland

   The trail leads to Iceland, and across its bleak volcanic tundra Pitt hunts a hidden cabal of the world's wealthiest men - Hermit Limited - who mean to seize whole Caribbean nations as stepping-stones to an empire of their own.