CIA agents, with the help of mercenary pirates, sink a Russian merchant ship transporting military equipment to one of the Middle Eastern countries. An SVR agent named Vlad proposes to his superiors a plan for a multi-step retaliation operation to end US dominance in the Mediterranean. To begin with, Vlad uses his connections in the Croatian mafia and launches disinformation that Russia allegedly intends to transport a large shipment of explosives to Syria by sea. Americans take the bait. Navy SEALs are urgently preparing for an operation to seize and destroy a Russian cargo ship heading to Syria. They don’t yet know what actually awaits them on board...