The Lucie Manette is so old and rusty that ship-breakers make a salvage offer for her every time she comes into her Miami River home port.
She still plies the Caribbean at ten knots, but terrorists know her engines have been upgraded and she can chase down the Caribbean Adventure, a cruise ship which carries 2,500 passengers and 1,400 crew.
The terrorists have smuggled themselves and their bomb aboard the Lucie Manette. All they have to do now is subdue her recalcitrant crew and passengers...
