Five years after dismantling the leadership of the Ares Syndicate in "Crimson Zero", Canadian intelligence officer John Burke remains on the hunt for the organization's elusive remnants. His investigation initially leads him into the criminal underworld of Vietnam, but when the mission goes horribly wrong, he's forced into a reluctant partnership with the American CIA and a lethal Israeli assassin to unearth the truth behind the resurgent Syndicate and the forces behind it.

Haunted by the specters of past failures, a vengeful Burke must determine what he truly fights for and what he truly believes in as he embarks on a dangerous mission across the world, from the Czech Republic and Germany in Central and Western Europe to the Syrian-Turkish borderlands in the Middle East.
And through it all, agents of chaos plot to strike a mighty blow to a world already reeling from trauma...