The world's most powerful naval vessel has been burglarized. The USS Enterprise, the U.S. Navy's show-of-might nuclear aircraft carrier, has been seized, its nuclear fuel off-loaded by a master criminal and black-market arms dealer, Liu Wong Fat. He orchestrates a false-flag attack on the Chinese navy by the Japanese to draw in the giant ship and facilitate his theft of nuclear material. The buyer? An Iranian Al Qaeda cell, with a plan to cripple America's infrastructure, and reduce the U.S. to a stone-age village. Michael Stark and his team of top-flight freelance security operatives are back, in the second installment of the Stark saga. As they follow the evidence, they trek from Washington, DC, to Tianjin, China. Along the way, they encounter a corrupt Naval Quartermaster, an ex-Nazi physicist, and an evil Chinese cabinet minister in their hunt for the global gunrunner, while welcoming the nephew of a high-ranking Naval Officer to the team. Can the team unravel the mystery of who robbed the USS Enterprise, and discover what the eventual targets are, in order to foil the plot to reduce America to pre-Columbian times?