Summer, 1985; In the cold waters near Kamchatka, an incoherent, injured man-the lone survivor of catastrophe-is found adrift, and a Soviet naval officer is faced with a mystery, one that will echo into the future. In the present, planes have been knocked from the sky, victims of some unknown device, and near the Aleutian Islands, a relic from Russia's past is found hidden beneath the waves. Is there some connection between these seemingly unrelated events? Marine Captain Michael Neill believes there is, and with scout sniper Nathan Crockett and Australian scientist Taylor Brisbane at his side, he sets off to defeat a new weapon-resurrected from the cold arsenals of the Soviet empire-to remove the veil of secrecy, and confront the EYE OF CHARYBDIS!