It is 1915 and the world is at world. Jake Johnson, a down-and-out sea captain is returning to Europe as a passenger on the old British steamer STAR OF DUBLIN, when German operatives suddenly take over the ship by force. They are after the secret cargo in the forward holds. They plan on meeting up with an armed commerce raider to transfer that cargo. Once they have the cargo, the STAR OF DUBLIN will simply vanish will all hands. In rounding up the passengers and crew, the Germans missed one, Jake Johnson. Unarmed and alone, Jake must figure out a way to retake the ship. If he can do that, he will then have to do battle with a German U-boat that has been tailing the ship, and the armed raider with nothing more than what he can find within the ship's holds. The secret cargo he finds in the forward holds is not weapons, but a race of people that have been starved and tortured for twenty years to make them wild, flesh-eating creatures that the Germans planned on turning loose in the trenches of France.