 The Ingush are primed for an uprising against their Russian oppressors and Larry's the man to arm them.Cranmer begins his journey, first to an arms dealer in Macclesfield, England, whom he finds murdered along with his assistants by an Ossetian group called "The Forest"; then to find Emma, who has sought shelter in Paris; then to Russia to track down his former Soviet contacts in hopes of finding Larry; then to Ingushetia to find his friend and try to save him—from the Russians, the Ossetians, and from himself.Finally, Tim Cranmer grabs his AK-47 and joins the Ingush rebels.