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For more than a decade, the worlds oceans have been home to Michael and Sarah Stone--and the sole Home their eleven-year-old daughter Ronnie has ever known. Doctors and idealists, the Stones have forsaken dry land and a comfortable life to reside and work aboard their thirty-eight-foot yacht Veronica--sailing to remote and inaccessible places to provide medical aid to prospects in need. But somewhere in the equatorial Pacific their shared life of freedom and purpose is shattered by the bizarre and terrifying event.
A gargantuan commercial vessel--a Liquid Natural Gas carrier--appears where it has no business being, radioing a medical distress call that the Stones cannot ignore. Left out to have a tendency to an ailing islander over a deserted atoll in the center of nowhere, Michael watches as Sarah and Ronnie tripped to answer the ships call--first with curiosity, then with horror. For as he looks on helplessly, Veronica is hauled onto the deck of the hulking metal behemoth, which in turn steams away along with his wife and daughter aboard.
Stranded and alone--with only a primitive, damaged canoe at his disposal and no navigational equipment except the stars--Michael Stone must now do the impossible. He must find and rescue his kidnapped family, lost somewhere on the vast and merciless ocean--a mission that leads him through deadly winter gales and turbulent tides to the teeming cities of the Far East, where determined killers await his arrival. . .cold-blooded assassins who inexplicably know hes coming. Meanwhile, up to speed an enormous, seagoing prison, Sarah and Ronnie must somehow struggle to survive the cruel whims of their captor, Mr. Jack--a powerful, enigmatic and obsessed madman who is planning a massive act of revenge.
