Jean-Baptiste Villiers, a Haitian-American legal scholar and newcomer to Islam is tasked by his dying mentor, Mehmet Melen, to head to Istanbul, Turkey, and hand deliver a package to his estranged family. Along the way he's hunted by international assassins, and aided by Sabriye Melen, a fiercely beautiful Turkish policewoman who claims to be Mehmet's estranged niece. Just what is in this package that Mehmet handed to Jean-Baptiste ? As they flee from danger, Jean-Baptiste finds himself drawn to Sabriye, and the feeling appears mutual. Still, does this lethal beauty have an agenda of her own ?