In this political-espionage thriller set in Yeltsin-era Russia, Andrian Linov, a disillusioned veteran of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, plans to strike a death blow against the crumbling Soviet Empire. However, he is stopped by a mysterious computer wizard who enlists Andrian in a new struggle against his old commander Sergei Kozhakov, who has secured a terrible biological weapon which he plans to unleash to annihilate all human life on the planet and start anew.