Japan， 1945: Two U.S. bombers take off with atomic bombs. Only one gets through. The Pacific， 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the United States is instantly， thunderously vaporized， taking with it a Norwegian vessel. Japanese fanatics have developed a chilling plan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. From the ocean depths to the discovery of cache of lost Nazi loot， DIRK PITT is untangling a savage conspiracy and igniting a daring counterattack. While Washington bureaucrats scramble， a brutal industrialist commands his blackmail scheme from a secret island control center. And DIRK PITT， the dauntless hero of Sahara and Inca Gold， is taking on death-dealing robots and a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors. Pitt alone controls the West s secret ace in the hole: a tidal wave of destruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor!