Book One in "The Power Trilogy". The Kanabo Corporation, a Japanese industrial conglomerate, continues its policy of trying to overcome the West and make Japan the world's leading power. The corporation secretly plans to finance and equip the world's most fanatical terrorist organizations that are dedicated to attacking Western powers. By using non-Japanese terrorists, they plan to spread political dissension and destabilize governments and economies of Western countries without drawing attention to their involvement. America deploys the Executioner to stop this threat.