Dirk Pitt answers a distress call and rips open a 50-year-old conspiracy. His adventure begins with Teri, a modern Greek goddess in a red bikini, who is the key to a vast drug-smuggling ring and who holds the truth about a Nazi war criminal now ruling over a corrupt empire. Pitt follows a trail of intrigue into an undersea labyrinth where the action explodes as he confronts his nemesis.