The world's hopes for peace are hijacked when the American President and the premier of the Soviet Union are abducted at an arms summit in Europe. Armed wit ha highly destructive plutonium-core device, the terrorists responsible issue a list of demands that sends fear through both American and Soviet officials. It's an impossible mission to fulfill, and relying on authorization at the Oval Office level, the men of Phoenix Force make it their own. Pitted against ruthless anarchists and the increasingly hostile intelligence networks of the superpowers, they storm into action to avert the imminent threat of World War III.