The year is 2011. In Germany and South Africa, coordinated reactionary coups have established military governments that have overrun the rest of Europe and half of Africa. The South Atlantic has become a battleground where nuclear-tipped missles rule--and the only gun worth using is one that seeks and fires from deep beneath the sea.

Lieutenant Commander Jeffery Fuller and his crew aboard the ceramic-hulled nuclear submarine USS Challenger are tapped for a mission critical to winning the war. Together with a team of Navy SEALS and assisted by Boer freedom fighter Ilse Reebeck, Commander Fuller must stop a group of scientists who are putting together the ultimate biological weapon. If the mission suceeds, the bioweapon will be destroyed and the South African government crippled. But if it goes wrong, thousands of innocent people will die...