In the aftermath of a Fourth of July terrorist bombing that has destroyed all of the bridges and tunnels leading out of Manhattan, an elite cadre of Middle Eastern soldiers searches for a man who holds a powerful secret of key importance.
When President Jack Rutledge learns the Soviet Union has secreted suitcase nukes into America's major cities, he must decide whether to launch an air strike when he knows a secret air defense system will render any attack utterly ineffective.
When a group of Secret Service agents is massacred in Utah and the president of the United States is abducted, surviving agent Scot Harvath vows to avenge his murdered colleagues and find the kidnappers.