"Breed and the CIA’s Anya Stein receive word of a theft from the Laurence Livermore National Laboratory. A killer has murdered a nuclear scientist and stolen the trigger for an atomic bomb. The murder weapon is a wakizashi, a Japanese sword. What follows is a deadly chase that takes Breed from Stanford to Tokyo where he pursues the killer from the luxurious towers of Otemachi to the seedy back streets of Kabuki-cho."