When the CIA director is murdered before he is set to testify about a government cover-up involving a terrorist attack on the US mission in Chechnya, New York District Attorney Butch Karp finds himself battling a heavyweight opponent: the US government. The presidential election campaign's foreign policy mantra has been that the terrorists are on the run. There are rumors that the CIA chief was going to deviate from the administration's version of events, and that the government may have had something to do with his death. Can Karp expose the cover-up and find the Chechen separatists who aided the Americans at the mission and have firsthand knowledge of the attack?