When Professor Russell Conrad received a call to fly to Washington, he didn't expect that he would find himself in Saudi Arabia trying to rescue the President and prevent a nuclear war. After Conrad is summoned to Washington he finds himself on Air Force One as part of an American delegation to a secret peace conference in Saudi Arabia. President Omar Sanjar's hopes of forming a lasting Middle East peace are shattered when the American delegation is kidnapped. Their captors' ransom demands present a moral dilemma that threatens to plunge the Middle East into a nuclear war. Conrad's role is transformed from CIA advisor to agent as he tries to rescue Sanjar and warn Israel of the impending missile attack.