Every politician has a secret. And when the daughter of a politically connected family is kidnapped abroad, America's new president will agree to anything - even a deadly and ill-advised rescue plan - in order to keep his secret hidden. But when covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvarth is assigned to infiltrate one of the world's most notorious prisons and free the man the kidnapers demand as ransom, he quickly learns that there is much more to the operation than anyone dares to admit.