<DIV><B>The “action-packed” (<I>Publishers Weekly</I>) new novel in the <I>New York Times </I>bestselling Kurt Austin Adventures…</B><br><br> A Japanese cargo ship bursts into flames near the Azores, and a gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster—but their boat explodes. What on earth is happening? Is it connected to the kidnapping of a top scientist from the streets of Geneva? Or the discovery of an extraordinary underwater graveyard of ships and planes littered across the seafloor?<br><br> As Austin and the rest of the NUMA® team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical power, and an unimaginable audacious plan to extort the world’s major nations.<br><br> The penalty for refusal? The destruction of the world’s greatest cities. Starting with Washington, D.C....</div>