Piranha: Firing Point

Admiral Michael Pacino fights a losing battle against an invisible submarine foe in the battle for Free China. The Red Chinese - losers of the Chinese Civil War - are determined to take back White China on the east coast. Using a magnificently designed fast submersible, they manage to steal six brand new Japanese Rising Sun-class nuclear submarines on sea trials, making it look to the world as if they sank from defective systems, the flotilla tasked with guarding the East China Sea as the Reds attack from the west. The American cavalry, arriving by amphibious assault, is ambushed and put on the bottom by the Red Submarine Force. Admiral Michael Pacino finds himself in the President's meeting, planning the counterattack as Supreme Commander U.S. Forces Pacific, but the title is meaningless without the weapon on which he pins his hopes - the new SSNX- class submarine. Against the odds, and against the ticking clock, Pacino's submarine force races west to try to put down six submarines so advanced that they are essentially invisible, so deadly that they attack before they are heard ...