1944: In the heart of the Saudi Arabian desert, in the desolate section called the Empty Quarter, something is very wrong. A band of marauding Bedouins led by a renegade sheikh named Abu Marak has been terrorizing the scattered Bedu tribes, descending like wolves, looting, murdering, then vanishing. Military intelligence in Cairo is such anarchy is dangerous enough, but what if it is something more--the prelude to JIHAD, a holy war, instigated by the Germans against the Allies?