"The stars shine their brightest when the night is its darkest."

They were three drifters, each a castaway of sorts after the war. He was a pilot who had flown bombers and rescue seaplanes during the war. Fate, or rather, some nameless government agency, hired his Key West charter service and put the four of them together to fly a mysterious cargo from one end of the Caribbean to the other, to the island of Tortuga...with no questions asked.

Somehow, as these four strangers faced life-and-death challenges and unexpected dangers, they learn to set aside their myriad differences and suspicions of one another to depend on each other and become a tightly bonded crew and watch each other's backs - to make sacrifices for one another in order to survive.

When they learn the true nature of what they'd been hired to do and the cargo they'd been entrusted with, they have to make some hard choices - choices that hold the lives of thousands, perhaps millions, in the balance who had just lived through the horrors of the second world war.

Bob Pierce writes a compelling story of four loners, each making their way in the new normal of a post-war world. They've all learned to fend for themselves in very different ways. The dynamic of each person being an island is one that many people embrace in our very divided world today, it's something most everyone can relate to. But these four strangers put aside their differences, transcend cultures, genders and race to bond together for a common cause.