Clive Cussler: Vixen 03 (UK 2024)

From the Publisher:
The brilliant fifth Dirk Pitt classic from multi-million-copy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler.
Over thirty years ago, on an ultra-secret flight to the South Pacific, the transport plane Vixen 03 vanished. It was believed to be lost at sea. And carrying canisters of the most lethal substance known to man.

Now Vixen 03 has returned to haunt the world. Dirk Pitt, the ace maritime troubleshooter who raised the Titanic, is the only man who can overcome the nightmarish problems involved in retrieving her cargo. And the price of failure is terrifying.

Clive Cussler: Vixen 03. A Dirk Pitt Adventure. Sphere, ISBN: 9780751505894 (October, 2024), 352 p., £12.99.

Clive Cussler: Vixen 03 (USA 1990)

From the Publisher:
1954. Vixen 03 is down. The plane, bound for the Pacific, carrying 36 Doomsday bombs-canisters armed with quick-death germs of unbelievable potency-vanishes. Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado.

1988. Dirk Pitt, who heroically raised the TITANIC, discovers the wreckage of Vixen 03. But two deadly canisters are missing. They're in the hands of a terrorist group. Their lethal mission: to sail a battleship 75 miles up the Potomac and blast Washington, D.C. to kingdom come. Only Dirk can stop them...

Clive Cussler: Vixen 03. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0553273906 (November, 1990), 384 p., $6.50.

Clive Cussler: Vixen 03 (USA 1981)

From the Publisher:
1954. Vixen 03 is down. The plane, bound for the Pacific, carrying 36 Doomsday bombs-canisters armed with quick-death germs of unbelievable potency-vanishes. Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado.

1988. Dirk Pitt, who heroically raised the TITANIC, discovers the wreckage of Vixen 03. But two deadly canisters are missing. They're in the hands of a terrorist group. Their lethal mission: to sail a battleship 75 miles up the Potomac and blast Washington, D.C. to kingdom come. Only Dirk can stop them...

Clive Cussler: Vixen 03. A Dirk Pitt Adventure. Bantam Books, ISBN: 0553203215 (July, 1981), 352 p., $3.95.

Clive Cussler: Vixen 03 (USA 1978)

From the Publisher:
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 definitely missing, they 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, become the target of a vicious blackmail scheme.

The climax is shatteringly unpredictable.
It is pure Cussler.

Clive Cussler: Vixen 03. A Novel. Viking Press, ISBN: 0670747416 (October, 1978), 286 p., $9.95.