Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1999
Price on dust jacket $26.95
First Printing Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ISBN # 0-399-14588-5
From the dust jacket, "Over the course of fourteen books, Clive Cussler's hero, Dirk Pitt", has battled warlords and criminals, raised the Titanic, survived erupting volcanoes and nuclear detonation, but never has he engaged in an adventure as dramatic, in a location as exotic, as in Atlantis Found. It is the author writing at the height of his powers - further proof that "Cussler can keep anyone on the edge of his chair" (UPI). September 1858: An Antarctic whaler stumbles on an aged wreck, its grisly frozen crew guarding crates of odd antiquities - and a skull carved from black obsidian. March 2001: A team of anthropologists gazes in awe at a wall of strange inscriptions, moments before a blast seals them deep within the Colorado rock. April 2001: A research ship manned by Dirk Pitt and members of the U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency is set upon and nearly sunk by an impossibility - a vessel that should have died fifty-six years before. Pitt knows that somehow all these incidents are connected, and his investigations soon land him deep in an ancient mystery with very modern consequences, up against a diabolical enemy unlike any he has ever known, and racing to save not only his own life - but the future of the world itself. The trap is set. The clock is ticking, And only one man stands between the earth and Armageddon...Filled with dazzling suspense, intricate plotting, and astonishing set pieces, this is Clive Cussler's greatest adventure novel yet."