When a local Italian antiques dealer is found dead in the Mediterranean Sea, thousands of famous paintings and relics from world Unesco heritage sites from Malta, Florence, Rome and all over Europe are smuggled into the black market to be sold to private collectors in order to finance terrorism. Lex Jackson and the Alpha group team up with the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to find out what the antiques dealer was killed for and who is behind the black market as they race across Europe dodging assassins.