Serving a twenty year prison sentence at Fort Leavenworth, former Marine officer Jack Flashhardt and his brother Billy Howling Dog plan to break out in order to prove their innocence. But when a strange Khyber knife is delivered to the American Embassy in Beijing along with a message for Jack, the US government decides Jack is needed again to track down the deadly LIITea bomb that was captured by al Qaida forces the previous year — before it can be let loose on a defenseless world!