Capitalizing on the worst-kept secret of today's American policy makers, the drugs for cash pipeline between the U.S. and South America provides a proven structure for implementing the escape of a murderous Islamic terrorist from his imprisonment in the vulnerable and politically sensitive U.S. Naval base prison at Guantanamo, Cuba. The prisoner's brother has sworn to Allah that he will infiltrate the island of Cuba, taking advantage of the destitute condition of its population, and armed with truckloads of arms, ammunition and explosives, smuggled in through the Florida Everglades, invade the Guantanamo prison and facilitate the escape of his homicidal sibling. Unwittingly, the unemployed but resourceful young Miami lawyer, Jake McCall, after his airboat adventure goes badly wrong, survives a near hurricane on an isolated island in Lake Okeechobee and is catapulted into the midst of this plot after an unexplainable murder occurs while McCall is asleep within feet of the victim. Logically, only Jake could have committed the murder, but didn't. In attempting to prove his innocence, he almost loses his own life and encounters the world's most elite professional killers who become unforeseen allies and will thereafter control his destiny and ultimately, his battle for freedom, both for himself and his country.