Lieutenant Kent "Rat" Rathman and his Special Forces team capture Wahamed Duar, the world's most wanted man in the ongoing War on Terrorism, but in the process Rat uses questionable methods of interrogation on a man who later dies. Both Duar and Rat are put on trial, but both are involved in other dealings--Duar with abandoned nuclear cores, and Rat with trying to protect the United States from the impending attack.