A highly prized intelligence find rests on the bottom of Skagerrak Strait: a Soviet Golf II class submarine equipped with three nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles. All that isneeded is to find this needle in the haystack, lift a thirty-fivehundred ton vessel fromthe ocean bottom unnoticed and secure it in a surface ship designed by the CIA for this purpose. A near impossible task, nonetheless a band of U.S. submariners agree totake it on."