This was in a big box of books that I got from another freecycler. From the back cover:

"Unknown waters, 1948. The Princess Dou Wan, a sea-weary cruise ship covertly seized by Chiang Kai-shek, slams into a devastating storm that tears the hull apart and sends it and a mysterious cargo down into the depths, lost to all searchers for more than fifty years.

Pacific Northwest, 2000. Dirk Pitt rescues a beautiful undercover immigration agent from Qin Shang, an insatiably greedy smuggles whose vast fortune is made selling Chinese immigrants into slavery around the globe. Shang's campaign contributions have bought him a collection of powerful U.S. politicians, but Pitt finds the secret behind Shang's vast and mystifying seaport in the Louisiana bayou to be shockingly sinister. From an adrenaline-pumped race against time and tide up the Mississippi River to a desperate dash to recover Chinese treasures, Dirk Pitt faces one of his most formidable foes--a madman bent on killing hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children with a catastrophic surge of mass destruction."

My TBR pile is too big to add anything new right now, so it'll be available until I can release it.

I'm sending this off to BCer dogsapples as part of her prize package. Enjoy!

Many many thanks - arrived today. Looking forward to reading this.

This finally made it to top of tbr and wow - what a great thriller. Cussler at his best.
Thank you Adia415, I'm going to release this at one of the Bristol OBCZ's soon. In the meantime marking it as avl in case anyone wants it.

RELEASE NOTES:

Sorry to have had this so long. It's now going to the George Inn OBCZ in the next few days.