Buried in the depths of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan lies one of the greatest drowned secrets of World War Two a crashed B29 Bomber that was carrying a third atomic bomb to Japan in 1945.

Its deadly cargo lost in the sea for nearly fifty years is at the heart of this classic Dirk Pitt thriller in which a small group of Japanese nationalist fanatics dreaming of a new Nipponese Empire set out to neutralise and blackmail the USA with nuclear weapons planted strategically in the country's major cities...