Paul Mercer, a disillusioned twenty-five-year-old Berkeley student is recruited by a radical Islamic terrorist cell. Soon the former physics student has begun work on a powerful laser.Jim Campbell, head of the FBI anti-terrorist taskforce is introduced to the capabilities and dangers if a laser got into the wrong hands.Through a series of unexpected leads, Campbell uncovers a massive a web of intrigue, and deceit, that reaches all the way to the White House. Now, through unexpected alliances, Campbell must track down Mercer and stop him before he can take aim at the Oval Office.