From the bestselling author of "The Bourne Identity" and "The Sigma Protocol" comes one of his most compelling thrillers ever. Paul Janson has a difficult past that includes a shadowy, notorious career in U.S. Consular Operations. Nothing could lure him back from retirement except Peter Novak

a man who once saved Janson's life

who has been kidnapped by terrorists and is set to be executed. Now Janson finds himself marked for death as he tries to rescue his friend.