In Vietnam's Mekong Delta, Jake Cazalet, US Special Forces officer, rescues a French woman. Thirty years later, someone is using the discovery of what really happened to blackmail him, in a move which threatens the world, because Officer Cazalet isnow President of the United States.Then the whispers begin of a new, completely ruthless and highly organised terrorist group, known as the Maccabees. Only Sean Dillon seems able to get the President off the hook.