Terrorists are targeting major western countries. The first to suffer is Britain, France takes the next hit, and then Canada's largest city is devastated by the unthinkable acts of a suicide bomber. The concentrated efforts of the allied countries have failed to slow down the steady spread of death and destruction within their borders and they are getting desperate. Fishing guide and retired CSIS agent, Brand Coldstream, returns from a Northern fishing excursion only to discover his girlfriend, Sara Monahan is missing. How far is Brand willing to go to find Sara and what will he discover on his search? On the other side of the world, mercenaries from western countries join forces with Middle Eastern terrorists, but to what end? Thrown back into the world of international intrigue that he tried to leave behind, Brand must now race against the clock to stop an unknown enemy lurking in the shadows. Will the U.S. President relent under the pressure to end a religious war with a shower of nuclear missiles? What can one man do to prevent a nuclear catastrophe?