Mayday! is the first in Clive Cussler's the iconic Dirk Pitt series, re-released thirty years on.

Brady Air force base is under attack. Major Dirk Pitt picks up the distress call and seizes the chance to fight back. He and his co-pilot engage in a frantic mid-air battle with the mysterious pilot of what appears to be a First World War German bi-plane, tearing apart the calm skies over the Aegean islands.

The battle is won, for now, but the plane and the pilot are nowhere to be seen and Pitt can't shake the uneasy feeling left by the encounter with the First World War ghost pilot. The mystery intensifies when Pitt encounters a seductive double agent, and as events begin to unravel, Major Pitt is set on a formidable course to discovering the twisted mastermind behind a deadly sabotage plot involving a fanatic ex-Nazi and psychotic Greek strongman...

Mayday! is the very first Dirk Pitt novel from Clive Cussler, re-released thirty years on to celebrate thirty years of Clive Cussler novels and the ever-popular Dirk Pitt series. The series has spawned many of Cussler's bestsellers, titles include Black Wind, Treasure of Khan and Trojan Odyssey.

Praise for Clive Cussler:

'The Adventure King' Sunday Express

'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

'The guy I read' Tom Clancy

Clive Cussler is the author or co-author of a great number of international bestsellers, including the famous Dirk Pitt® adventures, such as Arctic Drift; the NUMA® Files adventures, most recently Medusa; the Oregon Files, such as The Jungle; the Isaac Bell adventures, which began with The Chase; and the highly successful new series - the Fargo adventures. He lives in Arizona.