Fully armed and with all hands onboard, the nuclear submarineStarbucksailed into the calm Pacific Ocean for sea trials and vanished. No wreckage, no signals, no survivors: nothing…until ace maritime troubleshooter Dirk Pitt finds a single chilling clue in the shark-torn surf off Hawaii the log of theStarbuck.’Do not search for us, it can only end in vain….’ A crazed journal of madness and death is all that remains. And the captain’s final scrawled, fear-crazed note locates theStarbuck’s grave hundreds of miles from her last known position! The search for theStarbuckplunges Dirk Pitt into his most shattering assignment to date a whirlpool of deep-sea mystery and terror the Pacific Vortex!