Nick Breakspear, boat bum son of eminent Shakespearean actor Tom Breakspear, chose the Bahamas for the easy life. Which ended abruptly the day he ran across a luxury yacht adrift in the Bahamas - just twenty miles from the infamous drug barons' hideaway at Murder Cay. The rest of the crew smell danger, but Nick's not the sort of man to turn a blind eye ...

Suddenly he finds himself an unwilling conscript in an all-out drugs war - trapped between enemies as lethally ruthless as each other. When his girlfriend Ellen is taken prisoner, Nick's nightmare voyage turns into a very bad trip indeed...