The story of an American ship patrolling the Yangtze to protect U.S. property in 1925-1927 and the moral degeneration of the crew.

Commander Edward Richardson has orders to seek and destroy an enemy captain who is wiping out the U.S. submarine fleet in the Pacific during WWII.

"A direct descendant of a legendary English privateer, Lord Alexander Hawke is one of England's most decorated naval heroes. Now, in the Caribbean on a secret assignment for the American government, Hawke must disarm a ticking time bomb--a highly experimental stealth submarine carrying forty nuclear warheads that has fallen into the hands of an unstable government just ninety miles from the U.S. mainland. But Hawke's mission is twofold, for he has...