As the Coronavirus sweeps the world, Captain Mike Murkowski takes on a dangerous assignment. . .to investigate the sinking of a cargo ship, with the loss of all hands, in the Indian Ocean. His investigation takes him to the pirate town of Hobyo, Somalia, to a pirate shipyard in Greece, and then to Holland and Cairo before he arrives at a remote anchorage in Djibouti where the daughter of the ship's owner is being held onboard a stolen ship. Now he must chart a course that could mean life or death for thousands of people, with only his seamanship and native cunning to stand between him and a watery grave.