For years UN peacekeepers have been deployed to war-torn regions of the world, from Rwanda to Serbia, Congo to East Timor. Now it's America's turn. A crippling terrorist attack against the United States has resulted in it's cities emptied, its countryside set afire, and the government shaken to its knees. In the aftermath of this attack, civil war broke out, until the UN arrived to establish an uneasy peace. Samuel Simpson is a young, idealistic journalist from Canada who, seeking adventure, volunteers to become a record-keeper for a UN war-crimes investigation team at work in upper New York State. While Samuel and his team travel through the New York countryside, searching for evidence of war atrocities, he soon realizes that death is quick to strike from any farmhouse, road corner or rest area. Even more chillingly, he begins to suspect that there is a traitor in the group, trying not only to conceal evidence of this war crime but working to betray and kill them all.