With the aid of a German nuclear physicist, dissident Russian General Konstantin Benin (Christopher Lee), a military casualty of the Soviet collapse, is conspiring to restore the Soviet Union to superpower status. His plan is to place a nuclear bomb on a train controlled by mercenaries, led by Alex Tierney (Ted Levine), bound for Iraq, forcing the Russian army to invade Iraq to recover it and once again mobilize its might - creating a new military union in the process. Malcolm Philpott (Patrick Stewart), the head of the United Nations Anti-Crime Organisation (UNACO), entrusts the mission of stopping the train and its deadly cargo to a multinational team led by field operative Mike Graham (Pierce Brosnan) and information analyst Sabrina Carver (Alexandra Paul) who are forced to form a reluctant partnership as the international balance of power hits crisis point.
Pierce Brosnan as Michael 'Mike' Graham
Patrick Stewart as Malcolm Philpott
Alexandra Paul as Sabrina Carver
Ted Levine as Alex Tierney
Christopher Lee as General Konstantin Benin
John Abineri as Dr. Karl Leitzig
Clarke Peters as C.W. Whitlock
based on an Alastair MacNeill novel of the same name, which in turn was based on an Alistair MacLean screenplay.