Part 1, Vixen 03: Chapters 1-5 Summary

Dirk Pitt is spending the weekend in Colorado with his lover, Congresswoman Loren Smith. Pitt and Loren met at a party in Washington, D.C., after which Pitt took Loren on an uncharacteristically fast and dangerous ride in a hydrofoil racing boat. Now they spend the morning in bed. After lunch, Loren suggests Pitt go fishing while she takes care of some correspondence that has piled up on her desk. Pitt goes into the garage to find the fishing gear and instead stumbles across an aircraft oxygen tank and the nose gear to a large aircraft. Curious, Pitt decides to go speak to the neighbors rather than go fishing. The neighbors, Lee and Maxine Raferty, have lived in the area since Lee retired from the Navy as a deep sea diver. Over lunch, Maxine and Lee tell...