Tristan Wood is a young Special Agent in Washington, DC, tracking down an elusive accomplice to an assassination attempt on the President of the United States, when his FBI partner is shot while spying for the Russians. Recovering his flash drive, Tristan discovers a mysterious video called Tidal Wave 23, showing a Russian nuclear strike. Convincing his late partner's father, Sebastian Graves, to come out of retirement and rejoin FBI, they discover the catalyst to nuclear war is a false flag bombing of the Russian embassies. As he learns about the New World Order plan to bring down America, Tristan must fight an uphill battle to save his wife, his new FBI partner, and expose those behind the plot. But as Russia prepares to launch its missiles, can he stop a centuries-old conspiracy planned by the richest and most powerful people on the planet?