Larry Martin (O'Toole) is a ''Newsweek'' reporter, secretly working for the CIA as he travels around the globe tasked, along with Israeli intelligence, to work for the release of five wealthy girls kidnapped by the anti-Israel terrorist Palestinian Liberation Army from the yacht ''Rosebud''. Martin must contend with the girl's fathers, all of whom are wealthy, connected and concerned. Sloat (Attenborough), the extremist head of Black September (group), is connected with the kidnappings, and is subsequently hunted down after his plans for a centralized global terrorist network are uncovered.