Newly released from Delta Force, Jon Jericho is back in the States where he becomes "caught up in a scandal involving the appropriation of documents for an undetectable state-of-the-art ICBM by the Islamic State". He learns that "the plans were appropriated by American and Israeli intelligence, and the proffered to the Islamic State". This discovery will make Jericho a target of principals in both organization, people who decide the Hunter must be hunted down and killed.