The Chinese troops carry out an unprovoked attack on Indian troops in Ladakh. An Indian Naval flotilla is challenged in the South China Sea. The Indian Prime Minister deputes the R&AW chief Jimmy Ahuja to put a brake to the Chinese expansionism.

Across the border Abduveli, an Uighur from the Chinese occupied Xinjiang province is itching for revenge against Chinese to avenge his mother and sister. His father had sacrificed his life for the freedom fight. Abduveli signs up to train as a fedayeen in Pakistan's terror training camps.

Ahuja is ready with a brilliant plan. An Indian Nuclear Submarine and Abduveli's dirty bomb, have a common target - The Hainan Island, housing a nuclear power plant and an underground nuclear submarine base Yulin. The CIA and the Israeli Mossad are not silent spectators. Will the tough Indian Prime Minister let China walk away with impunity?

A former submariner in the Indian Navy, the author has written two authoritative books on submarines - Foxtrots of the Indian Navy and Handbook of Submarine Operations.