- Vixen 03 -
by Clive Cussler
Viking
1978
Price on dust jacket $9.95
ISBN # 0-670-74741-6
From the dust jacket, "1954 Vixen 03 is down.
The plane, bound for the south Pacific and bearing
several canisters of a particularly virulent organism,
vanishes. Believed ditched at sea, Vixen has in fact
crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. 1988.
Dirk Pitt, on holiday, discovers remnants of Vixen
03. The lethal canisters are raised - but they're
not all accounted for. It turns out that two of them
are in the hands of an African terrorist group. The
group's mission: to attack nothing less than Washington,
D.C. The catch is that the group is not aware that
it will be firing anything but conventional missiles.
But Pitt knows - and so does the president of the
United States. To complicate matters further, the
World War II ghost ship bearing the catastrophic warheads
up the Potomac cannot be blown out of the water. Pitt's
problems are compounded when he and his lady, a United
States congresswoman, becomes the target of a vicious
blackmail scheme. The climax is shatteringly unpredictable.
It is pure Cussler."
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