After serving time in a military prison for a dishonourable crime, former Canadian Army recon officer Burke is given a second chance to redeem himself by Canada's counter-intelligence apparatus in Ottawa. His new superior, assigns him to West Africa to aid their NATO allies in disrupting an Al Qaeda arms deal and hunt down the Ares Syndicate, the shadowy trafficking network behind it, anonymous criminals whose ruthless ambition takes a turn for the worse when their newest, exclusive weapons-grade chemical Crimson Zero could theoretically open the floodgates to uncontrolled nuclear proliferation in the heated post-9/11 world.
