Vixen 03

1954. Vixen 03 is down. Theplane, bound for the Pacific carrying thirty-sixDoomsday bombs -- canisters armed with quick-deathgerms of unbelievable potency -- vanishes. Vixen hasin fact crashed into an ice-covered lake inColorado. 1988. Dirk Pitt, who heroically raisedthe Titanic , discovers the wreckage of Vixen 03 . But two deadly canistersare missing. They're in the hands of a terroristgroup. Their lethal mission: to sail a battleshipseventy-five miles up the Potomac and blastWashington, D.C., to kingdom come. Only Dirk can stopthem.