Rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russias Lake Baikal is all in a days work for adventurers Dirk Pitt and partner Al Giordino. Yet when their ship is sabotaged and the survey team vanishes, Pitt is forced to get to the bottom of a mystery with far-reaching consequences. Soon hes on his way to Mongolia. There, a powerful and ruthless business tycoon holdin Rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russias Lake Baikal is all in a days work for adventurers Dirk Pitt and partner Al Giordino. Yet when their ship is sabotaged and the survey team vanishes, Pitt is forced to get to the bottom of a mystery with far-reaching consequences. Soon hes on his way to Mongolia. There, a powerful and ruthless business tycoon holding an astonishing secret about Genghis Khan is hoping to emulate the legends greatest conquests -- but on a global scale! With the legacy of Khan and the lost treasures of Xanadu as the prize, and the future security of the world at stake, Dirk Pitt for one isnt going to stand idly by...