White Water

Fishermen Roberto Rezendez and his Santo Fado crew are killed by white-faced attackers, and the Korean Ingo Pungo is torpedoed by a black submarine. Remo’s search with Chiun and Coast Guard lieutenant Sandy Heckman finds the sub, which fires on Cayuga before the cutter sinks it; its French name and fleur-de-lis imagery prompt speculation about Quebec but do not establish the operators. Fisheries Minister Gilbert Houghton, using the online identity “Commodore,” runs a covert fleet under Mistress Kali’s direction. He seeks to create a crisis and blame Quebec; Kali also manipulates UN Secretary-General Anwar Anwar-Sadat into advocating international control of the seas. The conflict escalates as Houghton’s plan reaches the Pacific, New England fishermen form an armada, and U.S. and Canadian forces fight in both oceans.

Remo and Chiun free Cayuga and sink two cutters; Cayuga later fights Canadian cutters alongside U.S. fishing vessels, Canadian crews surrender, and U.S. reinforcements take custody. Remo and Chiun reach Kali’s Ottawa Temple, where she tells Houghton and Anwar-Sadat that she engineered their schemes. Chiun kills Jilda while believing her to be Kali; Remo recognizes his former partner and Freya’s mother. Sandy’s boarding of Hareng Saur and the captain’s account identify the fish-herding torpedoes as “Truffle Hounds”; Smith finds an online Acoustic Fish Concentrator listing and infers how the operation herded fish. Remo reaches Freya, who attacks him while apparently controlled by Kali.

Chiun cuts the scarf and leaves; the Temple floor then collapses beneath Chiun. Remo rescues Chiun from the fish chamber, then finds and revives Freya from the rubble—her heart is still beating when she gasps. They take Freya and Jilda’s body to Sunny Joe Roam in Arizona. Jilda is buried near Red Ghost Butte; three days later Freya is with her older brother Winner. Chiun reports that Canada sued for peace after Smith and the President relayed the deaths of Houghton and Anwar-Sadat to Canada’s leader. He says Kali’s spirit has found another vessel, a claim the ending does not identify.