Bill Dixon used to be a war correspondent. Now he sails the elderly cutter Vixen, taking juvenile delinquents cruising in the North Sea for the good of their characters. One night at a Tall Ships celebration in Chatham Docks, Vixen runs down a small dinghy. Something snags the propeller. The something is a body. And the body means that Dixon's past is about to catch up with him. Unless he and his crew of young reprobates catch up with it first....
