The economy is in freefall. Inflation skyrockets. Crime and violence are out of control. Countless millions of illegal immigrants, representing votes for the entrenched administration and cheap labor for its ally, Big Business, flow unimpeded across the southern border. America's enemies gleefully watch and plan as what was once the world's only superpower descends to Third World status.
The American government fears China soon will achieve its four-thousand-year-old goal of world dominion. In its naivety, it adopts the philosophy, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," and secretly agrees to share global governance with Beijing. That requires the transformation of a capitalist democracy into a totalitarian Marxist state. To avoid insurrection and eliminate a dissident citizenry, the US administration asks China to develop a much more virulent and deadly pathogen than COVID-19. It trusts China to provide a vaccine so the administration can inoculate its supporters.
Seven extraordinary individuals and their handler are all that stands in the way. Compounding the challenge is the American government, in cooperation with the Chinese, has sent the world's best assassins to hunt them down and kill them. How can so few possibly make a difference?