By Eminent Domain

An attack on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline kills the repair crew, followed by massacres of U.S. troops and residents in Kakwik. The white-haired leader called Mactep claims Russian America for the Soviet Union. Remo Williams and Chiun return to Folcroft, where Harold Smith introduces former CIA analyst Mark Howard as his assistant and CURE succession contingency. Anna Chutesov, head of Russia’s Institute, reveals that her trainees were secretly taught Sinanju-like movements; the group defects under Lavrenty Skachkov to ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinsky. Zhirinsky’s forces kill residents of Umakarot and seize Fairbanks’s public buildings. Ivan reports that he showed the city leaders the nuclear device; after Smith moves the Army base beyond the city limits and Zhirinsky orders Americans expelled, residents are shown leaving town.

Remo and Chiun kill many of the trainees, while Anna destroys two Hinds before leaving Fairbanks. Ivan Kerbabaev explains that the missile is an inert, disarmed ICBM, though it launches briefly and fails to explode when Zhirinsky’s troops attempt detonation. Remo and Chiun eliminate the remaining Alaska trainees, and Remo defeats Skachkov, who claims Remo taught him. Zhirinsky flees in a limousine, crashes, survives by airbag, then dies strangled by the Soviet flag. In Moscow, Anna explains that she used stolen surveillance footage of Remo and Chiun to train Mactep; Remo spares her, incapacitates her, and later says he erased her memory and destroyed the tapes.

Chiun confronts the Russian President; at the airport he later tells Remo the President listened to reason and reports killing the drunken former President as retribution, while the current President and the other former President with a birthmark remain alive. In the Epilogue, Sonmi, an elderly Sinanju villager, rows into West Korean Bay, scatters blessed herbs, recites inherited chants, and drowns herself.