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The story spans two parts titled "Afghanistan's Plains" and "Black Arrow" (after a monologue in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit) each consisting of three issues and centers around a Russian Spetsnaz colonel.

In the first part the colonel leads a Russian team investigating a plane crash in Afghanistan. Violence soon erupts after first British and then American military forces become involved in the investigation. In the aftermath, the colonel helps a wounded British Special Air Service trooper who translates a document found on the plane. The document suggests that there is a high-level conspiracy in the United States; that the Global War On Terror was started in order to facilitate the west taking over the oil-rich Middle East.

In the second part the colonel travels alone to the United States in order to carry out a self-assigned mission, where he faces a troubled sheriff first. The Colonel eventually assassinates the President of the United States with the intention of stopping the Global War on Terror, using a Lee-Enfield rifle using only iron sights, firing from behind a closed window.