In 1963 Admiral Collins of CenPacFlt assigned Petty Officer "Pencils" Coleman the task of delivering Top Secret information for Vietnam's Operation Market Time. Soon after Pencils secures the documents, the ex-cop encounters two murders aboard his ship, the USS STEVENS, and is appointed to lead the homicide investigation. Pencils is led to an Hawaiian base, international drug-ring, and prostitution. Explosions, gunfire, and high-speed chases set a course of destruction directly to the man who master-minded the murders of Pencils' shipmates.