A routine Long Island homicide investigation uncovers a plot to unleash a holocaust of terrorism. Russian Federal Security agents purchase a penthouse at the Aqua condominium in Long Beach, New York, for the sole purpose of launching a missile. Departing from JFK Airport, a US passenger plane is targeted for destruction. Coinciding with Long Beach, an incoming plane is also targeted at LaGuardia Airport, New York. Simultaneously, suicide vest bombers are committed to mass destruction at crowded venues in New York City. ISIS trained jihadists, secretly recruited by Russian intelligence, are tasked with firing the weapons of mass destruction resulting in wholesale slaughter.A former KGB general plans to trick the United States into believing ISIS is behind the mass destruction and declaring war against the ISIS caliphate. Draped in the black flag of ISIS, each assassin poses for martyrdom videos proclaiming they are ISIS holy warriors. The videos underlying mission is to remove all suspicion from Russia and President Vladimir Putin. At the end of the horror, the general plans to release the videos to act as a "smoking gun."Nassau County Homicide Squad South unravels the plot with the discovery of trace evidence at the murder scene of Russian National, Oleg Petrovsky, found in a shallow grave. Homicide Commander, Detective Lieutenant Patricia McAvoy joins forces with the FBI's elite Joint Terrorism Task Force, pursuing leads from Long Island to New York City, Fair Lawn, New Jersey, Roscoe, New York, and the internal archives of the Russian Federal Security Service in Moscow. McAvoy's squad follows the trail to Long Beach and the Aqua's penthouse. With no time to lose, McAvoy engages in battle with former Spetsnaz Russian soldiers, agents, and ISIS terrorists primed for heat-seeking missile attacks on American passenger jets.