Description:For most of her crew,
HMS Retaliate's Baltic cruise is a routine one, and her sixteen nuclear
missiles no more than a silent threat to the Russians. But the
submarine's captain, Commander Shadde, is obsessed with the communist
menace and haunted by the memory of his one act of cowardice. As the
submarine approaches the end of her voyage, a letter from his wife
threatening divorce pushes Shadde to the brink of madness in a vessel
where nuclear war is just a button away..