Sea adventure in the South Atlantic. A secure, orderly passage aboard a cargo liner is ripped apart by a brutal terrorist attack. Author Sam Grant brings his professional seafaring experience to bear in this thriller that sounds all too familiar from our evening news bulletins. Apprentice Mike Peters is finding his feet amongst a cast of nautical characters as the Albany Princess voyages to Montevideo. But the ship's personnel are not all that they make themselves out to be, as revealed during a rapidly unravelling hijack in the South Atlantic.