Everyone wonders if Harry is dead or alive when there is still no sight of him. Section D manages to find out that Harry had managed to stop an operation to smuggle weapons-grade uranium into Iraq to make the war justifiable. The rogue officers who where behind it now want the uranium back no matter what the cost.

The country's energy supplies are threatened by an explosion at a gas plant and the team are forced into action. The Government is forced to start secret talks with Tazbekstan. Rustam Urazov offers to supply the country with the energy it needs but wants Section D to do nothing if he eliminates a few enemies. Harry ends up being forced to take drastic action to save the country.

Section D are assigned to find out what is being planned as the Bendorf group which is made up of the eight richest men in the world meet in Britain. Ros attends the meeting undercover but everyone at the meeting ends up being taken hostage. One of the terrorists called Finn Lambert puts Thomas Mickelson on trial and broadcasts it live on the Internet. After Mickelson is found guilty Harry and the others worry what will happen next. Ros attempts to get Finn's girlfriend to help her.

Lucas finds the past catching up with him after his former Russian prison torturer, Oleg Darshavin, shows up with intelligence about a Sudanese terror attack on London. Harry and Ros aren't willing to pay the price that Darshavin wants for the information. Harry and Ros reluctantly agree to let Lucas meet with Darshavin. Lucas comes close to getting the information out of Darshavin but the arrival of CIA officer Sarah Caulfield puts the whole thing in jeopardy. After getting the name of the terrorist, Section D track him down but he is cuddled before Ros can question him. Darshavin ends up being the only person left who can help the team. Harry works out that they have a traitor working within the team.

Harry is puzzled by the sudden passing of CIA boss Samuel Walker. Harry is convinced that he did not commit sleeping and when another CIA agent dies he begins tho think that the passings have something to do with the power meeting that is being held in Basel. Ros is surprised when her old mentor, Jack Coleville, contacts her and it soon becomes apparent he is involved in what has been going on.

With the country on the verge of bankruptcy, the Government cant pay its national debt payments. Section D are asked to get back more than a billion pounds of illegal earnings from the DeWits bank. The team have to find out what, or who, Nightingale is after Ruth's investigations into the power meeting at Basel pay off.

After a Pakistani intelligence officer is cuddled in south London, the head of the Pakistani intelligence service talks to Harry and Ros. They learn that there is a planned attack on some Muslims and there are determined to stop an all out war between the Hindu and Muslim communities.

After an Indian submarine ends up in Pakistani hands the problems between the two countries reaches crisis point. There is pressure is on to stop the first nuclear confrontation for over 60 years when India gives them seven days to release it. The team are forced to work with the Americans to put an end to the crisis. Nightingale puts a bomb in the hotel room of one of the Indian delegates so that the Pakistani president will behuged and the war between the two countries will be made worse. Ros and Lucas try to get the Pakistani president out alive after finding the bomb.