A decades-old KGB campaign involving sleeper assassins planted in each of the fifty American states has been activated by a dedicated Soviet hard-liner whose vision demands a long-overdue day of reckoning. The carnage mounts as waves of violence light the fuse to a third world war.

But someone from the bad old days has a list of names and codes; Burke Barnum is a traitor to his American government, but he's Mack Bolan's last hope for nailing Jasha Seriozha and his Soviet moles. With his prisoner in tow and a beautiful Russian agent riding shotgun, Bolan races to defuse these human time bombs - before everyone's luck runs out.