Angela Arutti, a young Navy pilot fresh from a celebrated recon mission over Bosnia goes overboard into the dark waters of the Adriatic Sea. She's never seen alive again. Was it suicide? An accidental death? Or murder? As speculation reaches a fever pitch within the Navy, the office of the Judge Advocate General (JAG), the Navy's elite corps of military lawyers trained as investigators, prosecutors, and defense attorneys, sends Lt. Harmon Rabb Jr. to unlock the mystery behind her disappearance.

The mastermind behind a high-tech weapon holds a sub crew hostage to his deadly demands.

The son of a prominent general is the key suspect in an artillery accident that leaves one soldier dead and several others wounded.

Three Navy lieutenants die by homicide in 11 months around Washington. Harm and Meg investigate; their attention turns to the Thai ambassador, his wife, and his chief of security. The chief confesses, but Meg and Harm discover the truth.

Two Naval aviators die in a crash of an F-14 while using a new fly-by-wire navigation system. Harm and Meg investigate. The vendor of the system blames the pilot. Harm flies both a simulator and a Tomcat; he and Meg discover the cause.

In Lima, Peru, while a boy sneaks into the US embassy at night, a Marine guard stops him; the boy fires, and the guard returns fire and kills him. Locals react strongly. Harm and Meg investigate amid violent retaliation, yet they manage to solve the case.