As another stormfront gathers, the real force behind world politics begins to reveal its designing ways. A week after the U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut, Dax Hunter returns to the country of his birth-but things have changed. Within days of arriving, he witnesses the unmitigated brutality of an ethnic genocide. Desperate to hide their wicked deeds, elements of the country's notorious 5th Brigade try to silence the eyewitness. Seldom more than a step ahead of his pursuers, Hunter comes to realise that he is being stalked by a far more ruthless opponent than either the 5th Brigade or Morozov, his sworn enemy. Can he stop them before he and his brother are made to pay for what they know?