Ken Robson, an environmental scientist, sailing alone across the Atlantic, sails into an unexpected storm. A day into the storm, he receives a faint Mayday call from a yacht sinking some distance away. He hastens to the rescue, arriving in time to rescue Erika, the beautiful young wife of the owner of Integra Corporation, a very large privately-owned corporation in Germany, but her husband is lost with their sinking yacht in the storm. Ken returns with Erika to Germany, where they are both plunged into a fight to save the company from the results of the criminal actions of a rogue Manager. The book describes in detail the horrifying problems of rescue in heavy weather at sea in a small boat with real knowledge, and with a number of aspects of business and places which the author knows and describes with insight and clarity.