When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must join Erica Long, a diplomatic attaché who is not all that she appears, to work together on setting the correct computer code that will disable the weapon and accomplish the mission. But while watching video monitors from inside a long-forgotten surveillance room, Steve witnesses a surprising deadly takeover of the building by the Serbian Liberation Front.

一个名为希尔兹·格林（Shields Green）的奴隶，因儿子被白人拷打而报仇杀人，不得不向北方逃亡。辗转之下遇到了弗雷德里克·道格拉斯（Frederick Douglass）和约翰·布朗（John Brown）。并在1859年追随约翰·布朗（John Brown）发动了哈珀斯渡口起义，打响了南北战争的前奏。又名: 废奴皇帝