Navy Chief Warrant Officer Nick Quefel, an acoustics guru, has joined up with the crew of the USS Nevada, SSN-784, a Virginia-class submarine, in support of a covert intelligence mission. When a crew member is discovered with his throat slashed, Nick is shocked to learn that not even murder is mission-degrading on board the fast attack submarine. It takes a near-fatal collision to force the Nevada back to Pearl Harbor, where Nick and his girlfriend, NCIS agent Cindy Chandler, now must navigate through a treacherous sea of ambition, greed, corruption and politics to forestall an international crisis and...