Juan Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable living working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the Far East to ask for Cabrillo's special brand of assistance: a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates the waters of South-East Asia. Normally, such attacks on the high seas are limited to smaller ships and foreign-owned yachts. Now, however, giant commercial freighters are disappearing. But when Cabrillo confronts the enemy, he discovers a deadly international conspiracy — a scheme of death and slavery that Juan Cabrillo is going to blow out of the water.