
The latest Dirk Pitt novel elevates skilled adventure writing to yet another level. The father-and-son team of Clive and Dirk Cussler splashes the story from the Aegean Sea to Israel to England and back to Turkey. Incidents in times far removed from one another --- a pirate attack on a Roman galley in 327 AD, an explosion of a British warship in 1916, and present-day bombings in Egypt and Turkey --- are common threads in an international web of terror. Dirk Pitt and his NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) crew work