In Kuala Lumpur a dropout British spy stumbles upon a secret meeting between a group of men who are planning a cataclysmic attack on Western society. In Mogadishu a burned-out mercenary is approached with an offer to cross over to a new job in the largest terrorism organization in the world. In Washington a talented but overworked intelligence agent tries to make sense of a string of suspicious but apparently unrelated incidents. In London the embattled allied intelligence services try to piece