Jim Duffy, disgraced and widowed ex CIA agent, hears ominous car tires crunching up his secluded driveway and knows his life is about to change. He is told an urgent tale: In Kazakhstan, on the other side of the world, Iranian "mullahs" have directed their Revolutionary Guard to purchase (with the bursting profits from their deadly opium and heroin trade) some of the deadliest weapons known to man. Three fully-functioning nuclear missiles Weapons of Mass Destruction-have been procured from a retreating Russian army now in chaos.