A U.S. Navy admiral sits in Pearl Harbor knowing that a Chinese naval task force is forming to his west. Half a world away, an admiral in the Middle East learns that Somali pirates are holding a tanker and its crew hostage. The admirals have questions: Which ships and weapons are in the Chinese force? How many boats do the pirates have? If the admirals are unlucky, America's spy satellites will be looking elsewhere, and the Navy's three-decades old P-3 surveillance air-craft will be hours away.
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