Mason Ingram, a gifted law student, becomes unlikely friends with a corporate security operative, Bobby McKay. The two are unwittingly entangled in an executive conspiracy to commit a terrorist attack on U.S. soil for the intention of provoking a war. Manipulating the levers of power for nearly a century, the Swiss Corporation, Leviathan, has grown to global dominance by capitalizing on the economic needs of war, its staunch neutral trade position generating lucrative profits from all sides of conflict. A rift in management turns profiteers to provocateurs and a small cadre of the company's operatives must stop an imminent attack.