It is America's most secret base, hidden deep in the Utah Desert, an Air Force installation known only as Area 7. And today it has a visitor: the President of the United States. He has come to inspect Area 7, to examine its secrets for himself. But he's going to get more than he bargained for on this trip. Because hostile forces are waiting inside.

Armed with the coolest hi-tech gadgets and weapons, the ultimate elite fighting force known as G.I. Joe travels the world in a high-stakes pursuit of Cobra, an evil international organization threatening to use a technology so powerful that it could bring the world to its knees.

Mortician "Zig" Zigarowski, while working on the body of a successful military man, discovers something he was never meant to see, and, to get the answers he needs, sets out to find military artist Nola Brown--a search that reveals one of the U.S. government's most intensely guarded secrets. When Archie Mint is killed while trying to stop a robbery in his own home, his family learns that his life, so perfect on the surface, held criminal secrets...