Publisher's Synopsis
They took his wife and daughter, and left him stranded on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. They should have killed him.
Doctors Michael and Sarah Stone and their ten-year-old daughter Ronnie sail their hospital boat to a remote Pacific atoll. A huge cargo ship named the Dallas Belle radios for medical assistance. Little Ronnie loves visiting ships, so Sarah sails out with her to help. Stone sees the Dallas Belle hoist his sailboat on deck and steam away with his wife and daughter. He is stranded 250 miles from the nearest radio, with no idea how to rescue his kidnapped family.
Sarah discovers that the Dallas Belle is heading towards Shanghai and that the owner, Mr Jack, is going to use the ship's cargo of liquified natural gas - which contains a destructive power equal to ten of the atomic bombs that fell on Japan in 1945 - as a bomb to destroy Tokyo. Knowing that her husband will somehow come after them, Sarah takes advantage of the chaos of a gas fire to radio their destination to a friend on the Palau Islands.
Stone repairs a tiny wrecked canoe and sets out to rescue his wife and daughter. He gets Sarah's message and, with the help of friends in Hong Kong, gets to Shanghai, where he rescues Sarah. But Ronnie is recaptured and held hostage by Mr Jack as the Dallas Belle sets off on her last voyage to destroy Tokyo. The drama rises in a crescendo as Stone and Sarah try to save their daughter and stop the cataclysm.
