Nick Scott fought with the SAS during the first Gulf War. Captured and tortured, he was left a broken man. His daughter Sarah is a beautiful young scientist at Cambridge University who appears to have cracked the secrets of cold fusion. Now, she has vanished.

Sarah's longtime on-and-off boyfriend, Jed Bradley, is one of the SAS's toughest soldiers. Nick and Jed have never gotten along, but now they must combine their efforts to rescue Sarah. 

Soon they are caught up in a deadly web of intrigue in which Nick and Jed encounter a traitorous scientist willing to sell out his country; a sinister Arab intent on destroying Western civilization; and a beautiful but manipulative intelligence agent whose motives are unclear.