Chief Meadows has written a book Of Ice and Steel. The book gives a nerve-wracking scenario of how men and machines would react to a mysterious threat the major undersea powers fear, and cannot understand. He used an intriguing science fiction idea and placed a WWII German U-Boat with an exotic cargo into suspended animation in the Arctic ice. Waking from the suspension, sixty years later, the ship's captain drives his crew to complete the mission they started completely unaware of changes in the world.