Wired

On a picture-perfect day, a day cruise ship is hijacked off the coast of Clearwater, Florida and "wired" with explosives. At the same time car bombs explode across America, including one at the DEA Headquarters in Virginia. The perpetrators turn out to be a rogue army of Mexican narco-guerrillas formerly trained in the US to combat Mexico's drug mafia. Now working for the cartels, the 'Los Zetas' have joined forces with Al-Qaeda to exact the release of Juan Carlos Alvarez - the most feared and revered drug lord in the Western Hemisphere. For Captain Skip Myles, the situation transcends belief. The unimaginable shock of losing his vessel to armed terrorists - in Florida waters no less, a mere ten miles from port - has left him a bewildered captive on his own ship. When he doesn't come home from his evening cruise, his worried wife calls her ex-Navy SEAL brother in Detroit. That evening Cal rushes to her side and later embarks on a mission to rescue Skip himself - convinced that if he doesn't, no one else will. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Ray Hanna has the ship surrounded but finds himself on a political leash. He can't release Alvarez and he can't storm the ship without risking the 218 passengers. When the hijackers begin blowing up passengers one-by-one, Hanna receives 24 hours to end the standoff or lose his command, leaving him with just one unthinkable choice. Later that night, armed with a black-market Uzi and some borrowed scuba gear, Cal falls back into the Gulf of Mexico for his two-mile underwater swim to the Majestic Star, plunging headlong into a three-way Armageddon between the US Coast Guard, Al-Qaeda, and the Mexican Mafia. "WIRED" is an explosive new thriller about love, fear, self-doubt, determination, and self-sacrifice. It's about how a single event can change the fragile landscape of ordinary people's lives. It is a compelling modern-day saga that deals head-on with the proliferation of drug violence spilling across the U.S.-Mexican border.