On a snowy Christmas Eve, Joe Falcone, an former elite undercover operative for the Drug Enforcement Agency, returns home and walks into hell on earth; his wife and young son lie murdered, a face from his past looking back at him. Five years later, a physically and emotionally scarred Falcone is living an empty life in rural Pennsylvania when he sees a news bulletin. An alleged terrorist has set off a bomb in Center City, Philadelphia. As President Michael Lowell delivers the tragic news to America and weighs his military options, Falcone catches a glimpse of the bomber and realizes it is the man who executed his family, an assassin who worked directly for Imelda Berrios, a psychopathic, sadistic drug lord classified as deceased by American intelligence. As the clock counts down towards a military confrontation with global consequences, Falcone has only hours to prove the terrorist attack is not what it seems. When the Commander in Chief realizes one of the highest ranking members of his Council may have been compromised, the fate of the world lies in the hands of a broken man chasing a ghost.