Persian Gulf

Under the moonlight in the Strait of Hormuz, a US$250 million American Poseidon drone was lured to Qeshm Island in Iran. Seventy-two hours later, the US Navy SEAL Team 6 will sneak into the island to destroy it; forty-eight hours later, a Marine expeditionary team is on standby in Dubai. Ali Reza Hassani, Major of the Saberin Brigade of the Revolutionary Guards, codenamed Qanat. Forty days after his wife died in an air strike, he received an impossible mission: lead a six-man team to infiltrate the United Arab Emirates and blow up the seal's evacuation yacht in Dubai Marina. The combat plan he received was accurate to the second - from monitoring the underwater propulsion route in the blind area to the thirty-seven-second countdown to the explosion of the gas pipeline. The creator of the plan is a 22-year-old girl from the University of Tehran who paints sycamore tree roots. Sarah Amiri Kashani, code name Saba. She has no military qualifications and has never touched a gun, but she can decipher every coordinate of the US military from the ninety-second rotation of encrypted communications. When she filled Ali in as an emergency contact, intelligence director Far Safi said: You are all people who hold things too hard. From the phone in Tehran University Square, to the 400-meter-deep rock cave in the Persian Gulf; from the rustle of charcoal across paper in cafes, to the silent killing underwater in Dubai Marina. She couldn't hear the gunfire, but she could calculate the impact point of each bullet; he couldn't see her face, but he remembered her saying that if you breathe correctly, you'll be stable. When the underground river finally emerges from the ground, and when the morning breeze passes through the strait, this game that begins with passwords and ends with blood and fire will determine who can see the grass growing from the cracks in the rocks in the dark.