So Heidi tells Pitt about the missing treaty, copies of which were being carried, in 1914, by two diplomats-both of whom were mysteriously killed, the treaty copies sinking (one in the Hudson, one in the St. And who is Heidi's new lover? None other than Dirk Pitt, hero of Cussler's underwater-salvage series, who's been secretly scuttling about the North Atlantic in his fantastic submersible, the Doodlebug, finding a ten-billion barrel oil deposit in the waters off Quebec. Herbert Asquith from Woodrow Wilson, who laments a lost North American Treaty between England and America. It's 1989, the US is energy-broke (dependent on Quebec's resources), and Navy Commander Heidi Milligan-30, divorced, survivor of a hysterectomy and an affair with an admiral twice her age-discovers a 1914 note to British P.M. Exclamation-point-happy Cussler (Raise the Titanic!) is in zesty form here, inflating a balloon of nonsense that maintains a steady, technological-comic-strip interest.
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