A TRIAL BY FIRE AND ICE... It started as a simple military exercise. A NATO counter-terrorist squad takes on Babcock, Hughes, and Cross, who are holding volunteer "hostages" in a remote Alpine village. But what was supposed to be a war of fancy maneuvers, smoke bombs, and blanks turns deadly when real-life terrorists crash the games. The NATO squad is slaughtered. A busload of schoolchildren is seized. And the men of Surgical Strike-barely armed-must save themselves and panicked civilians from bullets, bombs, and worse. Night is falling. The temperature is dropping. And for Babcock, Hughes, and Cross, the heat is on...