The anti-American president of Venezuela has an undeclared war with the United States. He initiates a plan to flood the nations of the Caribbean with billions of dollars of counterfeit $100 bills to destroy their economies. He plans to then use his petro-dollars and bail them out and gain control of the entire Caribbean basin. The U.S. Government learns of the plan and gives the Office of Naval Intelligence the mission of stopping it. ONI initiates Operation Venback to combat the plan with a small vessel and a crew of eight that is given the order to sink the delivery ship. The future influence of of the United States in the Caribbean is at stake and depends on the success of their mission.