Captured by Japanese forces during the Battle of Corregidor in May 1942, Lieutenant Bill Harris escaped by swimming eight hours through a shark-infested bay, but his harrowing ordeal had just begun. Shipwrecked on the southern coast of the Philippines, he was sheltered by a Filipino aristocrat, engaged in guerilla fighting, and eventually set off through hostile waters to China. Telling an incredible tale, Dan Hampton follows Harris's journey, which leads him to the notorious Ofuna prisoner-of-war camp outside Yokohama, but also the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay.