Major Dirk Pitt picked up the frantic distress call as he cruised his lumbering amphibious plane over the islands of the Aegean‎.‎ Brady Air Force base was under fire‎,‎ its entire force of jets destroyed on the ground ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎by just one First World War bi‎-plane‎!‎ A psychotic ex‎-Nazi‎,‎ a bloodthirsty Greek strongman and a beautiful double agent set Pitt on the trail of the warped mastermind behind a devastating sabotage plot‎.‎ And on that trail‎,‎ danger and death are never far behind ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎