another brilliant thrill ride from Mr Cussler. This one is a joint fave of mine with another Clive Cussler book, but i really cant hold one that much higher then another, all of them are excellent. in this story, the heroric Dirk Pitt and his friends are put up against the decendents of prehaps the most evil figure in human history. in a thrilling race from start to finish, Pitt and Co have to endure and overcome a increasingly harder set of tasks that leads them to a revealation that will change all of human history. and if they fail, the entire global population is at stake, as to the future of the world we know.