The Black Sea - Large Print Author:Richard Setlowe It begins in Singapore, where a basket containing the severed head of a Russian naval officer is delivered on the steps of a major Western hotel. Then outside the city's shores, the luxury liner Black Sea, carrying a group of prominent Americans, is hijacked by a band of pirates led by the charismatic and fanatic Tengku Haji Azhar. — The ship... more » is cleverly concealed from the prying eyes of both spy satellites and search planes. The impossible job of finding Black Sea falls on captain Henry Stewart. Schooled in the blood-drenched fields of Vietnam, he will use every treacherous skill he knows to locate the missing ship. But unknown to Stewart, he has an ally on board -- Asian expert Maggi Chancellor, who will use all her wiles in a terrifying negotiation to save the lives of passengers and crew.
Caught in the grip of a madman's sinister ploy, Stewart and Maggi have little but a prayer and their own gutsy cunning to stop a madman before he can ignite a holy war no one will survive...« less