FROM THE DARKEST DEPTHS OF THE SEAS TO THE BLAZING DESERT SANDS, THE WORLD'S MOST LETHAL WEAPONS ARE DANGEROUS HANDS!
Navy Captain Peter MacKenzie is struggling to repair his personal life when he gets a credible order. Central Asian nationalists seeking independence from the Soviet Union have seized the capital U. S. S. Kentucky, the most elusive of, deep-diving minisub and the world; they plan to turn its nuclear missiles on Moscow. With their country on the brink of collapse, the Soviets need an American to hunt the Kentucky. They get MacKenzie.
MacKenzie, now captain of a Soviet sub, hones his crew tirelessly in a fierce fight to prove himself. At the same time, he's being stalked on board by a Soviet Naval intelligence officer; and his estranged CIA agent wife is searching for the rest of the Kentucky's missing nuclear weapons, planted amidst the Soviet Union's richest oil fields.
From the icy depths of the Arctic Ocean to the Straits of Gibraltar, McKenzie races in secret toward a treacherous target that threaten the world with war. . .