Dan Coltrane is completing an assignment aboard an Australian warship investigating arms smuggling out of China when he is redirected to Mogadishu on the coast of Africa. With his newly met Naval officer friend Craig Aspen, both men discover a plan by hartched by a terrorist group to weaponise the Ebola virus and use it against the Australian mainland population. The information launches Coltrane and Aspin on a hunt to find the men responsible and bring them to justice. Before Coltrane is able to identify the organisation involved in the plan, a group of infected immigrants makes landfall at Geraldton in Western Australia and the virus quickly spreads throughout the state. A second front of terrorist firebugs lands at the same time and a prolonged hunt for the men who attempt to start fires all down the coast is launched by a group of Australian military personnel led by Coltrane. In an intense chase for the terrorists, a trail of mayhem and murder is left by the invaders as they attempt to bring Western Australia to it's knees. In a fast moving and intense conclusion to the case, Coltrane identifies the terrorist leader and finalises the account.
