Prologue Summary

Cyclops, another Clive Cussler techno-thriller, brings protagonist Dirk Pitt back to fight for justice and peace. Amid the Star Wars battle between the United States and Russia, with battlefields both on the moon and on the beaches of Cuba, Pitt and his friend, Al Giordino, are tasked with preventing world-wide disaster. Russia has taken offense to the loss of their Selenos lunar probes, because the probes were manned. They told the world, however, that the probes were unmanned. Jersey Colony, the secret moon colony established by American industrialists, shoots down any of the Russian probes merely to keep their colony a secret, unaware that the probes are manned. Even the highest powers of the U.S. are unaware of the existence of a moon colony. Russia, believing that to be a superpower they must dominate, stands poised to take over both the moon...