Ex-special forces operative Carla Smukowski is struggling to come to terms with her brothers murder by Islamic militants, but shes unwilling to make peace with a world that has betrayed her. Her collaboratorand sometimes loveris Boyce Hammond, a down-at-heel FBI agent whos been undercover so long hes forgotten where his loyalties lie. Smukowski, Hammond, and their squad of American terrorists seize a shipment of Indonesian nuclear waste, intending to make a radiological dirty bomb for an attack that will inflame the Islamic world. But just as Hammond begins to fear the group he has infiltrated might pull off their insane scheme, the stolen shipment is snatched from them by a group of extremists who are every bit as dangerousand now America itself is the target.