Atlantis Found

Dirk Pitt, a marine engineer and government agent with the National Underwater and Marine Agency, joins a rescue effort in Colorado. An explosion has trapped a team of anthropologists in a mine, where they had just found strange inscriptions.

Pitt's inquiry into the markings leads him to the legend of Atlantis. One theory places the lost civilization in Antarctica, wiped out about seven thousand years ago when a comet struck and triggered an ice age.

The search moves out to sea. His research ship comes under attack from a vessel that should have been lost decades earlier. Pitt learns that undercover Nazis who hope to build a Fourth Reich will go to any length to bury what has been found.

Loren Smith, his longtime love interest, returns, and the two take up their relationship again. This is the fifteenth Dirk Pitt adventure, first published in 1999. It runs on action at sea and underground, with a hidden enemy to expose.