Buried within the black ops budgets of the Department of Defense, a new spy agency has been created. Recruited as a field operative, Scot Harvath has just returned from his first assignment abroad when a group of American college students are killed in a bombing in Rome. The evidence points to a dangerous colleague from Harvath's past and a plan for further attacks on an unimaginable scale. Harvath is tasked with leveraging his relationship to lure the man out of hiding and kill him on the spot. But what if he has the wrong man?