One e-mail, one visit to Rome, and Michael Grey and Billy McLaughlin are faced with a horror scenario. A nuclear device has found its way into the hands of a German terrorist organisation. The target? Israel. The consequence of a successful detonation? Annihilation of the Middle East and the re-shaping of world order. Working together with the Israeli Mossad to find the rogue nuclear device, Grey and McLaughlin uncover a sinister plot that reaches far beyond a German terrorist organisation. Hatched by The Patriots, a group of wealthy industrialists, the scheme calls for massive escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. The financial rewards are immeasurable. It has to be stopped.