Fighting has broken out in the Baltic and only U.S. involvement can avert World War III. Mack Bolan does double duty, protecting South Haakovia's new president and leading the country's defense against the onslaught by the North's murderous dictator. With the sharp edge of their military forces blunted, a desperate foe prepares to unleash nuclear and chemical carnage. In this massive global objective, Phoenix Force turns the dense Finnish forests into a killing ground. Able Team takes the heat in the waters off Cuba to halt the flow of chemical agents en route to the enemy. The time of naked confrontation has arrived with nobody bluffing and nobody backing down. But the Executioner knows that one side must lose.