The lives of David Charlton and his wife Sarah are once put at risk when they are forced to return to Mazere to save the lives of two of their friends. Once there they find that their age old enemies have returned, now with a new leader. They need to they find their friends, prove to the President of Mazere that the United States of America is still their loyal ally, stabilize her government, and all before their enemies succeed in their latest attempt to kill them. Failure on their part will ultimately lead to interplanetary war, amid the peoples of Earth fighting their 3rd world war, a war that would return civilisation to the stone age.