An errant parachute jump during a search for a lost American biological bomb lands Marine lieutenant Jack Flashhardt in fabled Shangri-La, surrounded by the remote mountains of Asia. A Utopia? The intrigues and conflicts of the outside world have infected Paradise. Jack must fight his way to safety, then return to save his long-lived friends and the rest of the world from the deadly LIITea bomb and the al Qaida who have captured it.