Poseidon's Arrow

1942, the Cape of Good Hope. Returning from a secret mission a submarine is attacked and fatally damaged. Three quarters of a century later, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt saves a crowded cruise ship from being rammed by a runaway freighter. On board the rogue ship he finds the strangely burned remains of a single crewman. A continent away, the President is shown the prototype attack submarine Poseidon's Arrow. But the scientist responsible for its design has disappeared, along with the final plans. Pitt is assigned to investigate. But as the hunt leads him around the world, both his partner and Poseidon's Arrow revolutionary propulsion system also go missing. And soon the chilling connections between apparently disparate events begin to reveal themselves.