In December 2001 CIA Director of Counterintelligence Dietz paired LCDR Judah Wakefield from Naval Intel and Navy Seal David Rivers in an undercover op to bring home six Americans imprisoned in Afghanistan. While posing as a doctor and nurse to aid the prisoners while the US and provisional Afghani governments were in negotiations, the headstrong pair were also secretly tasked by the CIA to find a six-pack of nukes strongly rumored to be in the hands of an al Qaeda sect headed by a man who was out to make a name for himself and grab the leadership reigns of the terrorist organization because...

While still in the midst of legal trouble from their last mission, LCDRs Judah Wakefield and David Rivers, a Naval Intel profiler and a Navy SEAL happily pair up again, this time to hunt down a world-class sniper who has been hired to take out the US president on a European goodwill stopover. When they have to resort to hiring the hitman themselves to draw him-or her-into the open, one of them was already a target, being set up for treason.