As building contractor / sleuth John deal sweats in an air conditioned Miami Hotel ballroom, preparing to accept his reward he'd rather skip, chaos erupts. A band of heavily armed terrorists infiltrates the ceremony, showering the assemble dignitaries with a hail gunfire. Running for cover, deal grabs the ceremonies mc, the first lady. But his hair is them plays into the hand of the swively masterful mad man, and deal in the president's wife are kidnapped, they're captured none other than the one time CIA operative with a grudge to settle with his former employers. To make matters delier, someone in the higher levels of the government just may be helping him out. Escape is downright impossible, required a level of bravery and Ingenuity out of the reach of any ordinary man. But John deal is far from ordinary.