American Kiang Zheng learns where his true loyalities lie when he accompanies his parent to their ancestral land of China. Employed as an engineer with Sea Base, he is strategically positioned to serve the People's Republic.
Richard Zeichner is an agent of the NCIS assiged to Sea Base on this beta-test voyage. But, instead of observing the proceedings, his true mission is to uncover the identiy of a saboteur who will stop at nothing to send the floating fortress to the bottom of the sea...