It is 1775 and colonial America is in rebellion. A desperate war for freedom has begun. But another war is about to be fought; a war in the shadows of a greater struggle. The Freemasons and their rivals the Illuminati are about enter into a supreme struggle for control of the new republic. But all wars must be fought with weapons. And the greatest weapon is knowledge. It is a hidden knowledge that American Freemasons directed by Benjamin Franklin mean to obtain at all cost. And they have just the man at hand, Captain John Paul Jones.