In this exciting follow-up to Cade Jay Hathaway's brilliant debut novel, Happy Endings Sleepover, Johnnie and Sander have settled into a wonderful life together. During a day trip to Germany, Sander's younger brother, Jannik, is held hostage by a middle eastern terrorist cell. As events unfold, the boys learn that the taking of Jannik Mads Hansen was no random act. The clock is ticking, and time to rescue the kidnapped child is running out.

On a rainy, foggy night in a provincial English village, Captain Stuart Lanning of Operation Dutch Oven meets his end in a tragic car crash. But Lanning's wife believes that her husband was targeted. She travels to Denmark to ask for Johnnie's help in finding the captain's killers. In 1988 Johnnie's CIA supervisor, Marge Stuplemann, was a bright, new intelligence agent doing her best to bring Panamanian strongman, Manuel Noriega, to justice. What would transpire would shock her core beliefs in the morality of her career choice. Now, nearly thirty years later, both events are on a collision...