Tough, no-nonsense World War II veteran Colonel Nick Fury, is the head of SHIELD -- the UN's crack anti-terrorist organization. When a series of planes mysteriously crash -- culminating in the disappearance of an Empyre Airlines jumbo jet -- suspicion initially points to the involvement of terrorists in Hydra. But Fury soon learns that the true villain is the insane leader of the nation Quorak -- who wants nothing less than world destruction.Now Fury must learn to work with his greatest enemies in order to halt the deadly threat...