When photographs of a Russian missile scientist, who was thought to be dead, prove he's alive, and a Soviet era nuclear warhead goes missing in Iraq, ex-marine Logan Palmer must track them both down before the warhead's plutonium can be used to mount a devastating, terrorist attack.
The photographs are from the CCTV cameras of a hotel in Southeast Asia. The images show the scientist along with members of a private security team. A team that Palmer once led. His only option is to re-join his old unit and uncover the plan before they work out that he isn't one of them anymore.
With time running out, Palmer and Anna Riley, his handler back in London, struggle with ghosts from their pasts as they scramble to identify the terrorists' target and stop the attack.
But, with thousands of lives at risk, Palmer doesn't realise that the only person in the world he cares about is the one that's in the most danger.