At long last, Yann Calec is a captain—and it's his own ship! But the shipping lines he used to sail for don't look kindly on competition. The rich are arrayed against him—executives, bankers, town council members, even union leaders!—and pitting all their powers toward stopping him from refitting an old freighter. The few men willing to hire on with him are far from the cream of the crop. And when police find a night watchman's mutilated corpse aboard the drydocked vessel, things look grim for the young captain...