391 AD:
Fanatics destroy the greatest storehouse of knowledge and treasure in the ancient world - the great library and museum of Alexandria.
But a few conspirators secretly remove the most precious items and ship them to a distant, desolate land, hiding them deep in the specially excavated stronghold...

1991 AD:
A UN plane, with the Secretary-General aboard, crashes in the icy waters of Greenland, brought down by a monstrously cunning terrorist conspiracy. Trouble-shooter supreme Dirk Pitt, in the area on an undercover search mission for a crippled Soviet submarine, suddenly finds himself caught up in an even
more dangerous vortex of complex intrigue.