With America plunging into chaos as various states declare their independence - threatening to trigger a second, brutal civil war - followed by the horrific assassination of her President by foreign mercenaries, with the breakup of Russia into Twelve Great Houses coupled with the implosion of China's economy after the U.S. defaults on her massive debts, two remarkable, extraordinary men simultaneously rise to power in the global vacuum. One, an obscure U.N administrator named Stromquist, a man with cultlike charisma, is quietly bringing the countries of Europe together under his leadership and from there he intends to unite the nations of the world under a New World Order as Imperator. The other, a mysterious man named Temüjin, who claims to be a direct descendant of Genghis Khan, embarks upon a war of conquest to restore Mongolia to her former greatness and from there he intends to fulfill the dreams of his legendary forefather and build one world empire as the Khan of Khans. A battle to the death between East and West appears inevitable. Meanwhile, Herr Direktor, a former German spymaster and the head of an off-the-books agency of elite spies and black ops warriors, tasks his best man, a freelance agent named Max Doss, to find those responsible for murdering the President.

But Doss soon finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly arms race between Mongolia, Europe, and the U.S. instead - a race to harness recently discovered alien technology. The first to unlock the secrets of this advanced technology will become the world's sole mega-superpower. Doss and his team, two women and Mother, must find an obscure but brilliant Vietnamese man named Billy Duc before America's rivals do. Duc may be the only person on the planet who can decipher alien technology. If Doss fails, America falls.