A Dirk Pitt Adventure
In this novel, during the war, the Japanese created a biological weapon and were en route to launch an attack before the submarine was lost sending the toxin to the bottom of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
The present-day bad guy now wants the weapon for his own nasty plans.
Sometimes the plot of a Cussler novel doesn't grab me as much as the part of history he dug up to start the story. In this one, the Japanese submarine also had a launcher for an aircraft. This was the first time I've heard of this combination.
All kinds of questions came to me; how do you travel underwater with a plane attached? Once in flight, how does the plane return? Or does it?
Cussler did me a favour by opening a part of WWII history I had never know.
I'm sorry to say, but it was the history lesson that captured my imagination. I felt a bit like Julien Perlmutter in that I put the novel down many times to search out books about the Japanese Imperial Navy.
So, yes I enjoyed the book very much but not for the usual reasons.
Clive Cussler's Website - https://clive-cussler-books.com/
Japanese submarine history Wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarines_of_the_Imperial_Japanese_Navy
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