Facing inescapable financial collapse that would soon plummet their nation into third world status, the Mexican government resolves to sell a portion of the Baja Peninsula with expectations of preventing such a devastating future.
As a few overseas governments express interest in the purchase, United States Ambassador Owen Crawford and his superiors must act quickly in their attempt to obtain the land so that a potentially hostile foreign power does not establish annexed territory in the region.
In rationalizing that the development can have only one eventual outcome, Min Raymond and her cell of operatives attempt to benefit North Korea by orchestrating a series of sabotage missions on the peninsula in the hope of misleading two global superpowers into a state of war.
