American investigative journalist, Arnold Silverman is tracking the financial network of Al-Qa ida. He has a personal cause. His sister worked on the 99th floor of the World Trade Center and her body was never found. When Kamal, a British Pakistani studying at London University, is reunited with an old school friend who has become a Muslim fundamentalist, he follows him to Bosnia to support the Muslim cause. In his attempt to infiltrate the terrorist network, Arnold travels to Pakistan where he meets and forms a bond with Kamal who takes him to interview a spokesman for Al-Qa"ida. Will he survive when his true motives are discovered...?