The U. S. government believes it has put an end to the Al Qaida organization. Little do they realize, though, how another threat is looming on the near horizon. The brainchild of a secretive, rich, and ruthless power broker will take terrorism to a level the world has never seen. The third phase of the Phoenix Operation is his means to an end for eradicating the infidels and ruling the world from the throne of a radical global caliphate. He is preparing to unleash his deadly arsenal of conventional, biological, and nuclear weapons and vast jihadist army upon the U. S., and then the world. Aware of the threat, a Russian intelligence agent meets secretly with a U. S. government leader. The agent suggests a provocative black op to counter the threat. The leader accedes to the agent's plan, bowing out of any involvement in the op. Not entirely, though. In Nothing but Ashes, the sequel to Requiem for the Phoenix, Ryan Daniels, Matt and Annie Garret, and their forces return to engage in another death-defying confrontation. They must secretly vanquish at any cost the power broker and his organization before he can dominate the world and annihilate the infidels.