Finding the Nancy Lynn

Sly Harrell, former defense company industrial espionage agent, Department of Justice employee, and archaeology volunteer owns a business that locates valuable missing items.

Friend and lawyer Raiffort asks for help when his most important client requests a favor that can benefit Sly. Sly has been looking for the opportunity to rent a large boat to see if he wants to own one of the expensive craft. Sly is offered the opportunity to use the lawyer's wealthy client's boat but must first accompany that client's daughter and friends on a 'maintenance cruise.' The real intent is for Sly to evaluate the daughter's friends as responsible enough to borrow the boat for a month in the Bahamas. Sly is disturbed by what he sees and councils against loaning the boat. The rich lady decides to let her daughter take it anyway.

When the boat vanishes during the voyage, Raiffort and his client beg Sly to find the 35' cruiser, the Nancy Lynn. After rejecting them, he eventually agrees to look for the boat for a lucrative fee. What Sly finds isn't what he expects...some type involvement with drugs. It is many times worse. He quickly discovers the 'friends' of the client's daughter are not who they represent themselves to be. Following leads from several sources he discovers that the crew are terrorists.

Sly determines they are trying to turn the vessel into an improvised torpedo boat. Their targets are two cruise ships they intent to attack at night. Sly unravels clues to identify the targets, finds the Nancy Lynn, and foils the attack at the eleventh (and a half) hour.