Red China prepares to invade Formosa. However, fate intervenes when a pro-democracy Beijing official downloads certain information onto a disk. He then erases the data from their system's mainframe and smuggles the disk out of China. The material must be recovered. Arrangements are made to send a young woman to America with the disk. She barely escapes drowning in the Sea of Cortez. Next she then driven through Mexico and smuggled into El Paso, Texas, there she meets her end. A street youngster sees where she hides the disk before she is murdered, retrieves it and then becomes the object of the hunt. Two Triads, the Mexican mafia and a secret group of right-wing Americans I call the Serpents who then become pitted against one lowly FBI agent; Macias Baca Gonzalez. Special Agent Gonzalez's brother-in-law, an Immigration agent dies in an "accident," his lawyer girlfriend is framed with cocaine and the youngster's mother is murdered all in an effort to deter Agent Gonzalez. Agent Gonzalez finds the youngster, the disk, but then his girl friend Molly is kidnapped for trade. Ultimately a fight ensues and Molly is rescued from an old abandoned brewery. The players and the importance of the information is revealed.