Five average, middle-aged suburban guys jokingly call themselves the Thursday Night Mafia, and their weekly blackjack game appears to be an innocent pastime. But looks can be deceiving, as casual talk over cards leads to an ill-fated plot to scam Lake Tahoe casinos. Their lives are thrown into a downward spiral faster than you can shuffle the cards. Caught red-handed by mob goons, and facing certain death if they don't repay a fortune they don't have, they turn to Rick. He secretly schemes to use their inside knowledge of Air Force operations to his own end, and they commandeer a plane with nuclear weapons for ransom. But the Blackjack Bomber holds Cold War secrets bigger than Rick's, and a crack team of Air Force security specialists, led by Lieutenant Colonel Bart Winfield, joins forces with National Security Agency operatives in a race against the clock to hunt down Rick. His vengeful plan includes the destruction of Lake Tahoe and the death of thousands of people. He must be captured and the classified BlackStar system recovered before he can put it in the hands of international terrorists.