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This absorbing secret starts in 1945 as a German commander aboard a sinking submarine bitterly ponders his failed hidden knowledge mission. Flash onward to modern-day Cape Cod, Mass., where Aristotle "Soc" Socarides, a commercial fisherman who in the off-season becomes a quintessentially broke, wisecracking P.I., is hired by rich and sinister Frederick Walther, whose girl Leslie has vanished. Soc seeks a business lead on Leslie at the sea lab where she once worked well, but her caustic, womanizing ex-boss and enthusiast, Tom Drake, is murdered before Soc has an opportunity to question him. Emphasis shifts to Drake's research with remote-controlled undersea vehicles with the capacity of investigating phenomena out of the reach of real human divers. Death-defying watery escapades ensue as Soc, Drake's enemies, Walther, and the FBI close in on the secret sub of the Prologue, wrecked from the Massachusetts coast. Soc, launched in Kemprecos's The Cool Blue Tomb, is an appealing, witty protagonist; high-tech gadgets are explained obviously so as not to alienate the reader; and the Cape Cod locale is rendered with panache in this fast-paced, enjoyable yarn.
