Corsaire are pirates, and pirates come in many varieties. There are the pirates who fought in the sea of Barbary Coaste in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the comtemporary pirates who infest the waters of Africa and Asia, and the pirates who look like something else. when the U.S. Secretary of State's plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Cabrillo to search for her, and the misgivings prove well founded. The crew locates the plane but the Secretary of State has vanished. A terrorist mastermind has othe plans for the conference, plans that Cabrillo cannot let happen. But what does it all have to do with a two-hundred-year-old naval battle and the centuries-pld Islamic scrolls that the Libyans seem to determined to find? the Islamic extremists, and with the fate of nations resting on it outcome.