Harry Fletcher, a man with a chequered past, has reformed and now is making an honest living as a charter skipper fishing in the magnificent Indian Ocean. 

          Until suddenly men from a world he has put behind him plunge Harry once more into a deadly game. And he must play – for an unknown prize against undeclared odds – by the rules of violence and death which he once practiced as an art. For of one thing he is certain – to fail is to die….