A wealthy businessman, chief executive for a major Scottish oil company, is abducted by terrorists who demand the release of some of their number being held in London's Belmarsh Prison. His distraught wife makes contact with a close American friend of her husband who runs Granite Ridge Inc., USA, a paramilitary security firm employing ex-Special Forces personnel. Her husband and the American had formulated an expensive and risky plan to secure the release of a senior politician or high profile person, should they be abducted and held hostage by terrorists. With the financial backing of the oilman's wife, the American agrees to launch the 'Granite Ridge Initiative' - a terrifying countermeasure to asymmetrical terrorism.