Homeland Security Secretary Catherine Blaine receives a frightening communication from a hacker identified only by the pseudonym 'Janus'. The message is the latest in a series of communications correctly predicting natural disasters around the world. Unaware of the crisis in Washington, investigative journalist Jon Mallory stumbles on a list of seven prominent scientists who have been murdered over the past dozen years. When the person who gave him the list disappears, Jon realises he has unwittingly become part of a deadly chain of events...