Critiques en avant-première

When he was a boy, Cotton Malone was told that his father died in the north Atlantic in November, 1971, when the submarine he captained went down while being tested for undersea rescue operations. And that was all he was told. Now, when his own son presses him for details, Cotton realizes he's never used his government contacts to find out the whole story. Retired and owed a short list of big favors, he decides it's time to find out. His old friend and ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, secretly arranges for him to receive the file. But when he takes the cable car to the top of Germany's highest mountain to pick it up from an agent, things immediately get out of hand. Taking the cable car back down, he is held at gunpoint by a woman who demands the report. Calling on his old government-op survival skills, Cotton takes out her accomplice and escapes. Alone with the file, he learns the truth of his father's demise: the sub was actually a secret nuclear vessel called the NR-1 and it was on a highly classified mission when it was lost beneath the Antarctic ice pack. But the trouble that began on the cable car isn't over: he spots the would-be assassin and follows her in hopes of finding out who's after him. She leads him directly into a most lethal family feud. Identical twin sisters Dorathea Lindauer and Christl Falk are locked in a struggle to claim a family fortune and their mother, Isabella, has promised it to whichever of them can discover what really became of her husband, who died on the very submarine that Cotton's father captained. And the three of them know something Cotton doesn't: the Americans weren't the first to explore Antarctica by submarine. The Nazis went a decade earlier, inspired by historical clues discovered in a manuscript unearthed from the tomb of Charlemagne which seemed to point to the existence of an Aryan civilization based there. Now, the only way for the three of them to find the trapped US sub that holds the answers to both Cotton's ques tions and Isabella's is to follow the original historical clues that led the Nazis there in the first place. But Cotton isn't sure which of the twins he can trust, if either, and he doesn't know that two other pairs of eyes are watching : Admiral Langford Ramsey, who has kept a dark secret ever since he returned on the one submarine sent to rescue the NR-1, and Charlie Smith, an assassin Ramsey has hired to remove anyone who learns anything about the sub. On a dangerous adventure to an unforgiving land, Cotton comes face to face with the truth behind his father's death...and with the distinct possibility of his own.