Ex-Navy SEAL Adam Weldon tracks down kidnappers who have the San Francisco Bay Area teetering on the brink of societal collapse. In this wild, white-knuckled ride-much of it via sailboat-Adam teams with an Oakland cop, child hitmen and FBI agent Tripnee to battle a tech billionaire, a faux-spiritual cult, Bay pirates, a brutal cartel-and moral rot extending into the highest reaches of the US government. As this gripping drama unfolds, Adam comes to understand his extraordinary uncle-and himself-as never before. Could his kidnapped Uncle Peace, a cantankerous ex-Zen monk, be a key not only to saving the Bay Area-and America-but also to sparking a civilizing cultural and spiritual renaissance?