In this political-espionage thriller set in Yeltsin-era Russia, AndrianLinov, a disillusioned veteran of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, plans tostrike a death blow against the crumbling Soviet Empire. However, he is stoppedby a mysterious computer wizard who enlists Andrian in a new struggle againsthis old commander Sergei Kozhakov, who has secured a terrible biological weaponwhich he plans to unleash to annihilate all human life on the planet...