The Devil to Pay

"I'm a citizen, dammit," Sven hissed as he squinted down the barrel of the borrowed .45 and into the muzzle of the 9mm. "And I'm damn tired of you trying to kill me for 'National Security" reasons too precious for me to know about."Sven Olafson and Matt Blair, a yacht delivery crew picks up a client's boat at an isolated anchorage in the Bahamas. Even before they board, they find the body of GULL's boat keeper in her dinghy. Menacing Cubans board GULL at night, threatening to tow her away to be dismantled in search for a mystery canister that's hidden aboard.The crew outsmarts the aggressors and escapes with their charge in tact, but the pursuit goes on. A derelict boat surrenders a mysterious trapped woman who appears to be a victim of the same shadowy group.Wounded from a midnight encounter, GULL is barely kept afloat as she limps across the Gulf Stream to safety. But safety for the boat is not safety for the crew, for now they know too much¡­.