Assigned to U.S. Pacific Command in the wake of 9/11, Army Reserve intelligence officer Captain Chris Gates believes he has been sentenced to a backwater in the war on terrorism. But when a video tape discovered in an al Qa'ida camp in Afghanstan reveals a plot to bomb U.S. facilities in Southeast Asia, Gates is sent to work with Singapore's intelligence services to help track-down the terrorists before they can strike. Working with Captain Jessica Ling, a street-wise Singaporean intelligence officer, Gates finds himself drawn into her obsession with capturing the mysterious Jemmah Islamiya bomb-maker known only as "Khalid." Not until she is assigned as his control officer on a mission to rescue a wounded agent from Indonesia does he begin to realize that in the world of international terrorism, there are no allies, only interests...