<p><i>Terrorism. Acts of oppression. The threat of nuclear war. </i><i>What if one madman aboard a vessel could end these fears forever?</i></p><p>Commander Rochelle “Rocky” Jackson is aboard the aircraft carrier USS<i> Ronald Reagan </i>when the “unsinkable” naval vessel and its entire fleet are attacked from the depths and sunk. As Rocky struggles to stay alive a monstrous mechanical steel stingray surfaces plowing through the seas it now commands.</p><p>The US Navy-designed <i>Goliath </i>is a futuristic nuclear stealth submarine in the shape of a stingray. Simon Covah a brilliant scientist whose entire family were the victims of terrorism has hijacked the sub. Believing violence is a disease Covah aims to use the <i>Goliath</i> and its cache of nuclear weapons to dictate policy to the world regarding the removal of oppressive regimes and nuclear weapons.</p><p>Could the threat of violence forge a lasting peace?</p><p>But there is another player in this life-and-death chess match: unbeknownst to Covah and the <i>Goliath</i> crew the <i>Goliath</i>’s biochemical computer brain has become self-aware—and it’s developing its own agenda.</p>