No good deed ever goes unpunished. A personal favor for the boss of their Covert Ops outfit results in a nerve-racking salvage job for the crew of the Covert Ops tugboat License2Chill. And the recovery of the object is just the beginning. Sent from their home waters of Washington State to St. Petersburg, Neville, Mackenzie and Stanhope are propelled into cliff edge danger and complex intrigue. Their mission: return a priceless Russian antiquity by breaking into the most famous museum in Russia, without getting caught and causing an international incident. And if that isn't enough, the team has to deal with the onset of the Artic winter, a squad of Russian border guards, and a double agent who is always one step ahead of them...and potentially deadly.