Learning that a terrorist network has obtained easily transportable nuclear weapons and is being aided by an American traitor with access to the highest levels of government, Jake Grafton is given orders by the president to stop an attack.

In the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks in New York, an enigmatic Russian spymaster contacts Jake Grafton to give him a warning. A disaffected Russian general has sold a nuclear arsenal to a terror network planning to strike the US from within. Grafton must stop them at all costs.