Number one New York Times best-selling author Clive Cussler teams up with popular novelist Graham Brown to deliver this thrilling tale of international intrigue. When a Japanese cargo ship bursts into flames, a gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster—and then the pirates' boat explodes. Kurt Austin and the rest of the NUMA team rush in to investigate, only to find themselves at the center of an audacious plan to extort the world's major nations.