Al-Kuwaiti, unbeknown to Matt Talbot, had survived the attack on the Al Qaeda bunker in Afghanistan, and embarks on a car chase through rural countryside in the UK culminating in disaster. Meanwhile, trouble is brewing in North Korea again. A fifth tunnel is detected while being dug north of the Demilitarized Zone towards Seoul. Worse still, purchases of sarin gas in Damascus by North Korea muddy the waters. Following an unusual dearth of rhetoric from the North, forthcoming missile and nuclear tests are detected and the US Administration is losing patience with the increasing frequency of cyber hacking emanating from Shenyang in Northern China, close to the border with North Korea. Matt Talbot, an ex-major of the British SAS, currently a CIA contractor, is requested to help guide detection and destruction of the newest tunnel threat and lead a team to put the hackers out of action. A coalition of navies, led by the US 7th Fleet, converges on the coasts of the Korean Peninsula, finally causing the Hermit Kingdom to back down in an unprecedented display of humility.