"Trailing a Chinese nuclear attack submarine, Jerry Mitchell, the new captain of the equally new USS North Dakota, watches as the Chinese boat torpedoes a Vietnamese merchant ship. Stunned by this blatant act of war, Mitchell and his crew are also perplexed: the Vietnamese vessel wasn't supposed to be there in the first place.

As part of a desperate attempt to give the U.S. president a chance to resolve the crisis diplomatically, Mitchell's submarine squadron is ordered to sabotage attacks by both sides. If they fail, the entire world is in danger of economic catastrophe-or worse, a nuclear exchange."

I will be saving this book for bookstogive's General Literature VBB.