The head of Egypt's State Internal Security is brutally murdered in a Cairo cafÔe, his assailant a faceless killer known only as 'the Palestinian.' It is the opening move in a chilling game of terror that has caught the international intelligence community completely off-guard, and the CIA turns to the one man they believe can get to the twisted roots of a looming nightmare shrouded in mystery: a former Company operative code-named Scorpion.