The USS Maine is a masterpiece of fast-attack technology—a hunter-missile submarine commissioned to liquidate enemy ships. But the world's most potent undersea arsenal is about to become mankind's greatest threat…

The USS Maine is missing—hijacked by a secret adversary and devoured by the black veil of the sea. America's newest superweapon is now fully armed and positioned to obliterate everything in its path…

Searching out the Maine in the vast storm of the Pacific is the first imperative. Terminating the enemy is the second. As the danger of a new war looms, the world holds its breath. And as a ballistic, deep-sea killer surveillance operation is activated, the countdown begins…