On a Japan-bound freighter carrying a wealthy silk heiress, a tide of murder threatens everyone on boardand a world careening toward a second world war.
When a millionaire silk merchant dies from an apparent suicide after being called a Japanese agent during a Senate investigation, his daughter disappears. Trying to avoid the press, Dorothy Bonner sails to Japan on the Kumo-maru. And now, so is foreign correspondent Glen Larkin, hoping to get an exclusive with the woman the whole world is looking for.