Shock Wave

The thirteenth thrilling Dirk Pitt classic written by the multimillionaire adventure novelist Clive Cussler.

Maeve Fletcher, a descendant of the survivors of a British shipwreck that sank en route to an Australian penal colony and found diamonds on the tropical island where they washed up, finds herself stranded on an Antarctican island with a group of passengers after their cruise ship essentially deserts them, 140 years later.

Maeve and the passengers are found and saved from certain death by Dirk Pitt, who is on a mission to identify the cause of a lethal illness that is killing seals and dolphins in the Weddell Sea. Due to their diamond-mining technique, Maeve's father, Arthur Dorsett, and her two sisters are held accountable when Pitt eventually finds the source of the epidemic. A deadly race begins to avert a tragedy that would claim millions of lives and prevent Dorsett from carrying out his merciless mining activities. Pitt goes from terrifying experiences off the west coast of Canada to being abandoned in the Tasman Sea as he fights to thwart Dorsett's vicious scheme to ruin the diamond market and therefore create a monopoly of his own.