Jonathan Pine is working as the night manager of a Cairo hotel. He gets involved with a local woman who is the girlfriend of a local gangster. Through her relationship with the gangster she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with an English billionaire.

A disgraced Army Ranger is given a chance to redeem himself when the Ukrainian arms dealer he nearly defeated on a mission resurfaces.

On the eve of Russian General Boris Karpov's wedding, the man sends his old friend and fellow spymaster Jason Bourne an enigmatic message. In Moscow, what should be a joyous occasion turns bloody and lethal. Now Jason is the only one who can decipher Boris's cryptogram. He discovers that Boris was willing to betray his Sovereign to warn Jason of a crippling disaster about to be visited on the world--and Jason has only four days to discover the nature...