Nick Callaghan is a former mercenary, Marine Sergeant and N.S.A. operative who finds himself embroiled in a stew of corporate deception, terrorist plots and Hindu mythology when his fellow agent/ex-lover is found dead on the shores of the Persian Gulf. Sent on a mission for Naval Intelligence, he visits Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Kuwait, Baghdad, New Delhi, Nepal and Tibet, with an international team of agents, to unravel a corporate/military scheme to destroy the world's oil supply and monopolize a new energy source. The journey includes a diabolical half-Arab, half-Indian C.E.O., a rogue Chinese General, a pothead pilot, an underwater hotel room assassination attempt, light-bending camouflage body armor and a Tesla Roadster. The tension culminates in a relentless two-man assault on a Himalayan mountain complex, where scores are settled and bodies, rubble and attitudes pile up.