Three world experts on crop disease discover a secret from the time of Alexander the Great and are brutally murdered....

A centuries-old conspiracy plots to destroy much of the world's food supply as part of a plan for world domination. The Project team must stop a traitor and prevent a worldwide disaster.... The hunt for answers leads Nick Carter and Selena Connor to Greece, Bulgaria, and the United States. James Campbell is a world expert in crop viruses. He discovers nine clay tablets from ancient Persia containing a clue to the location of a golden urn marked with the curse of a Greek goddess, part of a treasure seized by Alexander the Great during the fall of Babylon. Then he's horribly murdered, along with two of his colleagues.

Campbell has been working on a secret bio-warfare program for the Pentagon. The murders get the attention of Elizabeth Harker, director of a covert intelligence unit called The Project. Nick Carter is Harker's team leader. He struggles with old injuries and PTSD from his years as a combat marine. Nick is deeply conflicted about his lover and teammate, Selena Connor. Selena's been with The Project for less than a year. She's having a hard time dealing with the mayhem that goes with her job and her feelings about Nick.

Nick and Selena follow a bloody trail through Greece, Bulgaria, and America, uncovering a heartless plan to destroy half the world's food supply, part of a strategy by a centuries-old conspiracy to achieve world domination. It will kill millions if it succeeds, and time's running out--it's set to happen soon. Harker is forced to make an unheard-of alliance to try and stop the plot and avoid a possible war with Russia. All the while, a high-placed traitor does his best to sabotage The Project at every turn.