Senator Paul Hofstedter, the junior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has been kidnapped and is being held on the yacht Clementine in the Caribbean Sea just off St. Kitts. The kidnappers have demanded a ransom. Newly married Lindy Kellogg Talbot has to report Next door, in DEVGRU (the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group) Headquarters, Hannah Stern waits for news of the dangerous rescue mission that her lover has embarked on with Angus. The information DEVGRU has developed is remarkable, but far too sketchy to suit her. She isn't certain that she can go any...