With his own boat the motor yacht Sea Fox " former naval officer Philip Vivian had hoped to earn a living free from the petty restrictions of everyday life close to the sea he loved. Now however his dream is threatened by financial difficulties. So when a profitable if legally dubious proposition is put to him by an old naval comrade in arms Vivian is willing to listen. But what starts out as a harmless adventure soon turns into something altogether more sinister. & Vivian finds himself trapped in a treacherous web of violence & crime dangerously torn between his stubborn sense of past loyalties & his duty to a society he has always despised."