A new emperor rules Japan, and former President Teddy Roosevelt sends Marine Corps Captain Matt Hunter to Asia to spy out the monarch's plans for expansion in the Pacific. Hunter sails to the South Pacific aboard The Swift, learning along the way that a murderous bandit calling himself Matt Hunter has been plundering throughout the islands. To protect his shipmates, his mission, and his reputation, Hunter must defeat the malicious counterfeit. Accompanied by the vivacious Jessica Hopkins, who captures his heart after he rescues her from the tyrant ruler of an isolated atoll, Hunter sails from island to island, gathering intelligence about the Japanese and hunting the impostor along a trail of silver looted from sunken Spanish galleons.
