On a remote Pacific Island, millions of pounds of lethal chemical agents are being stockpiled by the United States--enough toxic material to annihilate one quarter of the Earths population.

In a swift and daring early morning surprise attack, a band of Japanese terrorist led by a fanatical right-wing nationalist has seized the weakly defended island. More than a thousand Americans--including a U.S. senator--have been made prisoners. A madman with dreams of empire suddenly commands the most terrifying weapon the worlds has ever known.

The gravest crisis since the end of the second World War has set rival economic superpowers on a lethal collision course--unless two men, Lt. John Moody of the U.S. Navy SEALs and modern-day Samurai Shintaro Nakajima of the elite, top-secret Japanese Counter Force, join together on an extraordinary mission to save a hostage planet form the terrible vengeance of the . . . RISING WIND