When the S.S. Leonard hauled Harry Goddard out of the freezing waters of the Pacific, he thought his troubles were over--but he was dead wrong. For what appeared to be a cruise ship enroute to the Philippines turned out to be the board on which a lethal game was being played--a game of international intrigue, double deception, and multiple murder, where the stakes were sex and power and the price of one wrong move was certain death.