Senior Lieutenant Sergey Pavlov, nicknamed Polunda, is used to any trouble. And where he hasn’t had to go! Right now they’ve sent him to Cuba. The assignment seems simple—escort a Russian cargo ship transporting spy equipment and rockets from the Island of Freedom. But it turned out to be much more serious. The Americans also needed those rockets—so a saboteur got aboard, ran the ship aground, and then planted explosives. And on top of that, the cargo ship was seized by Arab terrorists who had escaped from the Cuban prison of “Guantánamo.” In short, Pavlov has plenty of enemies to fight. But that’s exactly what Polunda is for— a legendary special-ops expert throughout the fleet…