Both Jon Wells and his adversary from the previous adventure, Zhang Xe, have had their careers change drastically. Zhang is now devoid of his skilled cyber-team but is still determined to bring down America, this time by crippling the US transportation system. Without trucks, stores would have no milk or bread or other staples. Jon Wells is dismissed from the FBI and now works for Homeland Security but he is finding the team he is on to be far too slow in taking action so again he goes it alone.