In Iraq
The President awards his country's highest honour to the man known as Eilat One. Hours later, in the dead of night, he tries to have him killed.
In Iran
One of the world's deadliest terrorists offers his services to the regime and promises to continue the fight against the United States and bring down America's anger and military might against their common enemy, Iraq...
In England
Just off Plymouth Sound, the Upholder-class submarine "HMS Unseen" is undergoing its final sea trials before being commissioned. Unbelievably, mysteriously, "HMS Unseen" disappears.
In Washington
Admiral Arnold Morgan begins to suspect that one of his deadliest and most skillful enemies is behind the disappearance of the submarine, the same enemy who is now beginning a series of spectacular strikes against the West. Morgan knows of only one man who could possibly be capable of doing all this. And Morgan knows he must be captured, or stopped, at all costs.