Welcome to the most dangerous sea in the world…

Dan Lenson was taking the USS

Gaddis

on her final journey, turning her over to the Pakistani Navy. But things didn't go according to plan. Now Dan finds himself commanding an undermanned, under-gunned, strife-filed ship on the China Sea — and cut off from Naval command. The

Gaddis

is supposed to be patrolling against pirates. But with a monsoon bearing down on his ship, and his crew ready to explode, Dan knows the

Gaddis

has been turned into a renegade itself: to engage in a violent, secret shoot-out against the second most powerful nation on earth.

For Dan, a bizarre, treacherous mission has become a desperate journey of honor, character, and courage. For not only has the

Gaddis

been forced into a covert mission against China, she now has a murderer on board…