High tech warfare, double agents, counter-plots and non-stop action. When Jonas Ambler, American business boy wonder, throws a benefit affair for Iraqi dissident author Mohammed Majdi on Ambler's yacht, the party is attacked by a group of commando terrorists, led by Colonel Vasili Borfchenko. Majdi is slaughtered, Ambler is wounded and his wife Jennifer is mercilessly executed. Bent on revenge, Ambler turns for help to Alex Hawks, former commander of NATO's Special Ops Team - Code Name Saber. Even though his old Phoenix is the one responsible for the attack, Hawks turns down Abler's offer. Not to be dissuaded, Ambler entraps Hawks and blackmails him into taking the contract.