When the President of the United States is assassinated in a coordinated drone strike, the country plunges into chaos. Behind the assassination stands Tracy Ciacchella, a brilliant and ruthless leader of a shadowy global cabal known only as New3. Their plan is to eliminate the president, cripple the nation's power grid, and plunge the US into darkness long enough for rival superpowers to seize the advantage. When cascading blackouts sweep across the nation and martial law looms, civil engineer Jake Bendel teams up with FBI agent Kristi Konnors to track the network orchestrating the attacks. What they uncover is far more dangerous than a cyberattack --- an international conspiracy positioned to hand America's collapse to China and Russia. Then the conspiracy becomes personal.