CIA superagent Mitch Rapp's cover has been blown. After leading a team of commandos deep into Iraq to prevent Saddam Hussein from joining the nuclear arms race and holding back the dawn of World War III, he was publicly hailed by the president as the single most important person in the fight against terrorism. But after years of working covertly behind the scenes, Rapp is now under the glare of the public spotlight, lauded by the nation, but marked by virtually every terrorist from Jakarta to London, who now knows his identity. Thousands if not millions of Islamic zealots would gladly give their lives to take him down, and he is more than ready to duck back into the shadows. Now married to national news correspondent Anna Reilly and on assignment as special advisor on counterterrorism to CIA director Dr. Irene Kennedy, Rapp is ready to fight the war on terrorism from CIA headquarters rather than the front line. That is, until a platoon of Navy SEALs sent by Washington on a covert mission to the Philippines to save an American family kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf, a radical Muslim group, suffers a surprise attack. The mission had been straightforward and strictly undercover. All evidence concludes that the source of the mission's leak lies in the U.S. State Department and the Philippine embassy. But a greater threat still lurks—an unknown assassin working closely with the highest powers in the Middle East bent on igniting war. Now, with the world probing into his every move, will Rapp be able to overcome this anonymous foe and once again keep the flames of war from raging?