Force 12

In the chilling tradition of The Perfect Storm, an ocean yacht race contested, literally, to the death. Rex Wyman, a world-famous software billionaire, is determined to win the world's longest and most challenging yacht race, from San Francisco to Japan via Alaska—through some of the roughest seas imaginable. He sets out onboard the Victory, a 75-million-dollar racing yacht designed and navigated entirely by computer. Wyman desperately needs this win as his business empire is crumbling, his assets are dwindling, and only a public-relations coup like this can save him. But not even his girlfriend, a beautiful and gifted computer programmer, realizes the lengths he will go to in order to win. Meanwhile, he must evade a long list of secret enemies intent on making this ocean race his last. So, when an enormous sub-arctic storm engulfs the Victory, the stakes become not just win or lose but a matter of life and death.