After Austin Cole's home is ransacked and his brother inexplicably disappears, he embarks on a desperate search that sets him on a collision course with a gang of international, illegal arms dealers who are intent on finding a powerful and deadly weapon long thought to have been destroyed. But they soon find out there is much more to Mr. Cole than surface appearance would indicate. Half way around the world a rising young agent of the Chinese Ministry of State Security leaves her promising future behind and without the support of her government heads to the United States on an unsanctioned mission of her own. An action that will have the NSA and the MSS utilizing every available resource to find agent Kao Yi Fun and soon find a strange and significant link to one Austin Cole that simply can't be a coincidence. When the paths of the innocuous Austin Cole intersects with that of MSS Agent Kao Yi Fun it becomes clear that an alliance between the two is their best hope to avoid capture by the NSA, achieve their respective personal agendas and stop the arms dealers before they can find and sell the mysterious weapon to enemies of either of their respective governments.