Two American operatives visit Ireland to acquire a house where a notorious Irish paramilitary named Gerald McCann stored nuclear weapons sold to him by a U.S. Army officer years ago. The Americans pose as chairs of a literary society for fans of a fictional author who was born in the house where the nuclear weapons are buried. After they make an offer to the woman who currently owns the house, a middle-aged Irish policeman confronts them at the hotel at which they are staying. The Americans confess to the policeman, and eventually the purchase of the house is complete. The weapon, a compact nuclear warhead called a “Strategic Atomic Demolition Munition” (SADM) was developed in the 1950s and phased out in the 1970s. The American operatives were instructed by the former U.S. Army officer, now in a different prominent career, to “clean up” the officer’s trail of selling the weapon to McCann years ago.  The warhead is removed from the house and loaded on to a private jet used for rendition (taking a suspected criminal to another country, where the use of torture as an interrogation method is less regulated. The two Americans and the Irish policeman board the jet. As they low over the ocean, they decide to drop the warhead into the ocean. After they release it, one of the Americans shoots the Irishman for knowing too much, using a gun placed in the bathroom; the Irishman falls to his death into the ocean. The shooter’s partner realizes that the gun was originally meant to shoot him, not the Irishman. The American shoots his partner, and enjoys the rest of the flight back home over the peaceful ocean.