Set in the early years of the post-Soviet era, Air Force Major Brad Strong teams up with a veteran FBI agent to conduct a covert investigation. They must find how the President and his cabinet members have come to have microchips full of a deadly poison implanted in them. They have been assigned the case by the President and report only to him. They suspect the culprits to be working inside the West Wing. Brad finds his new role uncomfortable and intimidating. Although he has his orders, he yearns to be back in Alaska as a part of the team investigating the crash from which this all started. As the investigation ensues, he realizes there is a plot to eliminate several world leaders. Democracy as a whole is at risk. Although struggling with his past, he is determined to find those behind the plot and bring them to justice.