 They discover that the "Pilottown" has been part of a complicated web of insurance scams and piracy which saw her name changed several times, from "San Marino" to "Belle Chase", and finally to "Pilottown", as her ownership changed through a number of bogus holding companies.Eventually, they tie the ship to Bougainville Maritime Lines, a powerful company owned by the ruthless and mysterious Madame Min Koryo Bougainville.Bougainville and her grandson, Lee Tong, have entered into an audacious plan with the Soviet Union to engineer the kidnapping of the President of the United States, the Vice President, the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate, the next three men in the line of succession to the presidency, as part of a project code-named Huckleberry Finn.