After transferring to SID, Special Investigations Division. Ricardo Cortez and his new partner, Miles Stuart, are assigned a high profile case involving the theft of ancient artifacts from a local museum. Believed to be cursed by an evil spirit, the artifacts had been discovered by archeologists who vanished from the Maya ruins during excavation the previous year.

Diane Falcone, the museum curator, wants those artifacts returned. The treasures are not only precious to her and the museum, but also to Kiko de Jesus Pasilla the malevolent and extremely dangerous curandero. Having made a pact with the devil, kiko has joined forces with a radical Arab terrorist cell in the midst of the Iraq war. They are plotting to kill a million Americans by detonating a nuclear dirty bomb in a large US city.

The chance to save the lives of a million people will be up to Cortez and Miles. With the help of Diane, they must uncover the secrets of the powerful relics and expose Kiko's sadistic plot.