In Thailand two men hire a pair of international pirates to smuggle them a small team of mercenaries and some equipment aboard a freighter at a Russian port Its frighteningly easy and the ship sails east toward the western coast of North America nbspThe crew onboard thenbspUS Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth stationed in the Bering Sea along the Maritime Boundary Line is busier thannbspusual catching fishing vessels on the wrong side of the line but its not enough to cause undue alarm In Washington DC a CIA analyst has beennbsphearing rumors about the sale of radioactive material and military equipment on the black market in deep Russia but cant get it confirmednbspThe analyst Hugh Rincon originally from Alaska and more keenly aware than mostnbspin Washingtonnbspof Alaskas vulnerability with its air force base and proximity to the Far East begins to piece it all together He cant get anyone to take him seriously however least of all the director of the CIA nbspThen Hugh learns that his estranged wife Sarah Lange is second in command on thenbspSojourner Truth in the Bering Sea at the heart of the potential conflict And the chase is onnbspThe first stand-alone thriller from the pen of Dana Stabenow Edgar Award--winning author of seventeen crime novels delivers a nail-biting action-packed read international in scope and frighteningly real.
