After many years of fighting rampant sexism in the F16 fighter pilot community, Captain Kate Cardenas finally calls out defeat and retreats to a job within the Defense Intelligence Agency.She joins a team of operatives embedded across Europe, to help the US military combat terrorism.From her base in the southern French countryside, Kate is assigned to rescue a kidnapped friend of the US President, only to find that she is kidnapped herself by the same North African al Qaeda group.