Hailed as a hero in the war on terrorism, CIA agent Mitch Rapp is settling into a desk job as special advisor on terrorism to CIA director Irene Kennedy. However, when a platoon of Navy SEALs sent on a top-secret mission to rescue an American family kidnapped by radical Islamic terrorists is ambushed, Rapp returns to action to action. Is the leak within the State Department or the Philippine Embassy--or is someone trying to spark a jihad on a global scale?