Avinash Roy is a quality control officer who had come to attend a seminar at India’s youngest oil refinery was out on an early morning jog in the adjoining woods. Nothing had prepared him for the terror that awaited him. He was taken hostage by India’s most dreaded terrorists at gunpoint. Pitch forked into living as a fugitive with his captors who wanted him alive for ransom, destiny shaped him into being one of them when the ransom failed to materialize. As Abid Rehan, he was soon pushed into Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan and Pakistan with different terror groups. He becomes privy to a most diabolical plot to assassinate the President of the United States by the Lashkar-e-Taiba an Al Qaeda offshoot on Indian soil. Though he was now aware of this plot, which was hatched by the ISI, the premier intelligence service of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, he felt helpless to prevent it. The ISI would be using the sleeper cells of India’s most notorious mobster Zulfiquar Khan, now a fugitive holed up in Pakistan’s port city Karachi to carry out the hit job on the US President,. The only way he could prevent this if at all it was possible to do so was to escape his Pakistani captors and return to India to activate the government before it was too late. The only way he could get to India was as an agent of Zulfiquar Khan who was unaware of his origins before he had become Khan’s most dreaded battle hardened bodyguard. He meets an old school friend at the Indian High Commission who was an undercover agent of the Research and Analysis Wing the main external intelligence wing of India, whose help he seeks to convey the message of the looming catastrophe. They find it hard to convince the obdurate Indian bureaucracy of the imminent disaster that is waiting to happen on India’s Republic Day parade in New Delhi where the US President James Edward Taylor is the chief guest. The plan was a too daring suicide mission, which required the utmost discretion. It was impossible to guess who in the government machinery could be entrusted with the information without a betrayal. Nor was it possible for the two of them acting unassisted by the state machinery to pull off the rescue mission, as New Delhi would become an impregnable fortress that was impossible to breach to get close enough to Taylor in order to save him and his family who would be accompanying him. The assassination of Taylor could lead to a full scale invasion of a nuclear armed Pakistan by an India backed by the USA and Israel with China, North Korea and most Muslim countries coming to the rescue of Pakistan in a global conflagration. Avinash and Arjun must summon all their stealth and astuteness to save themselves and the nuclear war that was almost inevitable. Will they succeed?