The Aurafura Sea, North of Australia. A billion-dollar satellite platform incorporating cutting-edge industrial technology is about to be recovered by its investors when their vessel is sunk with the loss of all hands. But this is no random attack. It seems a new force has arisen in the region. Arming the old Bugi pirate clans with state-of-the-art weaponry, one man has melded them into a deadly fighting force with the potential to control Indonesia itself.
And now Captain Amanda Lee Garrett of the Seafighter Task Force is given the job of bringing him to heel. The forces she can command are awesome - from the legendary Seawolf helicopter gunship squadron to a mammoth stealth amphibious warship. But her opponent, a 21st-century Pirate King, has some deadly surprises in store for her . . .
