Protecting Nikola is Jim Scott Book #33, and in this novel Jim and friends are faced with defeating a major terrorist plot to terrorize the United States with a series of terrorist acts. As they try to unravel the layers of the plot, it turns into a much more deadly situation.

After the local police department, with assistance from Jim and a few friends, take out a terrorist group who had planned an ambush, they coordinate with Hector Garcia in L.A., and the FBI back East when it is determined that their local situation was not an isolated incident.

With joint investigation into the plot of the terrorist leaders, in time it is found out that there is a much deeper target than just the various terrorist targets. While defeating the planned terrorist operations, they also discover and protect the main target of the terrorists, and the man funding the terrorists. That man has a plan, Jim Scott also has a plan to defeat the evil man's plan...then the race is on to see who has the better plan.