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Terrorists hold two of the most powerful people on Earth hostage. Their demands are impossible to meet. The consequences could lead to World War III. For John McCready, what starts out as a rescue mission, turns into a race against time to a backdrop of global disaster. As the clock ticks down, he's left to confront impossible odds and make the ultimate decision of life and death.

Overwhelmed by an ill-fated love affair, an unsatisfactory career as a model, and her mother’s crushing suicide, Leah Harper leaves Chicago and tragedy behind and heads west in her battered old Volkswagen. With the Colorado Rockies in sight, the long hours on the highway take their toll and Leah takes refuge in a cabin at a seedy motel. A raging storm moves in while she is showering in the out-building. She dashes back to her cabin only to be shocked by a blinding flash of lightning and an ominous figure who warns, “Turn on the light and you’re dead.”

Running off to join the French Foreign Legion used to be every boy's dream of action and adventure. But for Lieutenant Bill Reilly - half Irish, half American, and like Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia, a Westerner at war in the desert - the dream has turned into a nightmare. And it all begins with the gruesome delivery of a severed hand…