In Texas, a dying billionaire tries to create Armageddon ... In Washington, a general takes desperate measures to force politicians to confront the threat of Islamist terrorism ... And in Russia, one drunken clerk knows where to find one hundred "missing" nuclear bombs. In Switzerland, assassin Samuel Carver lies helpless, his mind torn apart by torture until the woman he loves disappears. Plunged into a cauldron of conspiracy, he discovers the lives of millions are at stake.