In Plum Island, John Corey, a NYPD homicide detective wounded in the line of duty is convalescing in Long Island when a young couple is found murdered on their patio. Because they were both biologists at Plum Island, a germ warfare research site, the crime takes on worldwide implications, and Corey is called in on the case. In Charm school, something very strange, and sinister, is going on in the Russian woods at Borodino. Young KGB agents are being taught by American POW's how to be model citizens of the USA. When an unsuspecting American tourist stumbles upon this secret, he sets in motion a CIA investigation that will reveal horrifying police state savagery and superpower treachery. In word of honor, a lifetime ago Ben Tyson was a lieutenant in Vietnam where men under his command committed a murderous atrocity. Today, as a brilliant corporate executive and honest family man admired by men and desired by women, Ben Tyson's past actions finally catch up to him.