Dr Greta Kurgan believes it's time to reshape the global order and has an audacious plan. She's already sold it to powerful players—no less than the secretary of defense and the national security advisor. Now she needs President Marriott to rubber stamp the idea before he fully realizes what is to be unleashed.

Only those in Kurgan's inner circle truly understand the plan's shocking culminating moves. A third-world country is to be targeted in a risky and explosive experiment designed to dramatically demonstrate America's international supremacy.

When Major David Tyndale first stumbles onto Kurgan's scheming, all he suspects is that an unspecified strategic project is being hatched outside of proper channels. But then this project takes off, triggering an international emergency, which draws Tyndale deeper into the storm. He works with a small group from the FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency, as well as a gritty journalist, to unearth the secrets of Kurgan's conspiracy.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon faces its greatest ever challenge as the stakes escalate to produce a potential global catastrophe.

Horrified to learn of what's really going on, Tyndale is determined to halt the slide to disaster, even if this means going rogue. But time and the surge of events are not on his side...