A time bomb is ticking at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, and unless Orlando private investigator Scott Jarvis can find and disarm it in time, millions will suffer horribly.

On a sunny winter afternoon, Jarvis is doing nothing special when a new case walks into his life in the form of a beautiful blonde with flashing eyes. Jarvis doesn’t know it yet, but this new client is about to turn his life inside out.

Audrey Lambert and her grandfather need Jarvis’ special brand of hardboiled help, and they need it fast. Henry Lambert, the last survivor of an ill-fated submarine training cruise just after the close of World War 2, is holding Pandora’s Box, and the lid is already being pried open. It seems that Hitler isn’t quite done with the US, and the old man has a startling revelation that will thrust the young detective into the most dangerous and broad-reaching case of his life.

There’s something deadly hiding in the bowels of a sunken U-boat - something that if found by the wrong people could literally lay waste an entire nation. Now, an old man’s secret is out, and the hourglass is running down fast!

Jarvis must face personal danger and international intrigue - all while dealing with his personal loss. The past slams headlong into the present. Will the gritty investigator be able to defuse the situation before the pot boils over and a madman’s last evil deed scalds the world?