In the twenty-first century, war and espionage have been transformed. With the CIA on the ropes, the armed forces streched thin, and the need for special operations capabilities at an all-time high, the United States government has turned to private paramilitary corporations to help shoulder the load. With more than fifty thousand privately employed soldiers and spies in the field, national security has been outsourced. Camille Black, a former CIA counterterrorism officer, has created Black Management, supplying former Special Forces operators and CIA case officers for covert operations. The Agency contracts Camille to track down and eliminate her ex-fiance. Hunter Stone, a Pentagon spy accused of selling arms to terrorist cells. Fueled by Stone's disloyalty to his country and to her, Camille tracks him through the shadows of the War on Terror. Dodging death with each step, she finds herself caught in the cross fire between the Pentagon and the CIA, where good and evil blur and trust is bought and sold.