When a vastly powerful new Russian tsar threatens America not to interfere with plans to reintegrate Russia's rogue states, espionage agent Alex Hawke investigates the disturbingly related destruction of a small midwestern community.

Someone from the past has the British crown in his sights again, and has proven once before that these threats are not to be taken lightly. This is just the call to duty British-American M16 counterterrorism operative Alex Hawke needs to get back in action -- if the madman doesn't wreak total havoc first.