After five years in the Army, thirty-five-year-old Mac, a confirmed bachelor, has resettled in Key West, Florida, with a Silver Star, two Purple Hearts, scars that don't tan, and a big charter fishing boat with an even bigger bank loan. Mac has left his life of danger and adventure behind him. But when Carlos, a hotshot Miami lawyer heavily involved with anti-Castro groups, approaches Mac for a ten-day fishing tournament in Cuba -- to be accompanied by a covert mission and sizable paycheck -- Mac's interest is piqued. He agrees to meet Carlos' clients -- a mysterious older Cuban exile, Eduardo Valazquez, and a beautiful young Cuban-American woman named Sara Ortega, who will accompany Mac to Cuba. Their mission? To recover sixty million dollars hidden in Cuba by Sara's grand-father when he fled Castro's revolution. With the Cuban Thaw underway between Havana and Washington, Carlos, Eduardo, and Sara believe that it's only a matter of time before someone finds the stash -- by accident or on purpose. And Mac understands that if he accepts this job, he'll either walk away rich -- or not at all.