Dragon

About “Dragon”

This 1990 novel by Clive Cussler brings back hero Dirk Pitt. In 1945, two US bombers take off with atomic bombs and only one gets through; in 1993, a Japanese cargo ship bound for the US is vaporized along with a Norwegian vessel, as Japanese fanatics pursue a plan to devastate Western powers. Pitt untangles the conspiracy involving a cache of lost Nazi loot, a brutal industrialist's blackmail scheme, death-dealing robots, and a human-hunting descendant of samurai warriors, while controlling the West's secret weapon: a tidal wave of destruction waiting to be triggered on the ocean floor.