When Rick Harrison, an ex-CIA officer, gets a call from an old contact to make a quick trip to Tunisia to check out a suspected plot to export poison gasses to renegade African countries, he doesn't know what he is in for. Having just received a call from his ex-wife telling him that his seventeen-year-old son has disappeared without a trace in the same country, he reluctantly takes the assignment. While searching for his son he uncovers a plot that threatens to set the whole of North Africa ablaze. With the help of Janine Simms, a beautiful and tough CIA operative, he exposes a plot, which implicates some of the world's top industrialists.