Upon learning from the rescue of a high-ranking Chinese defector by Navy SEALS that China is supplying nuclear weapons technology to North Korea, an incensed US President orders the re-opening of the US Embassy in Taipei and announces his support of Taiwan’s quest to remain free. A new Chinese president, Western-educated and progressive, with new ideas of how to approach the West, is caught off-guard by the event. He comes up with a bold plan to bargain for the oil-rich Spratley Islands with Taipei. China’s “old guard” and anxious Chinese military decide to act.
Navy Captain Ben McGuire, now the interim Naval Attaché at the newly opened embassy, once again finds himself in the middle of a whirlwind with global peace on the brink.
