"After a secret meeting in the Red Sea, a conspiracy with global ramifications is underway. A terrorist attack kills hundreds in the streets of Tehran. A diplomat is assassinated in Europe. Missiles strike an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen. An American is murdered in the backstreets of Cairo.
And a year after a failed mission to extract a defector from Iran, the CIA recruits gun for hire Avery to terminate a former colleague and lover, a rogue operator now caught in the center of a plot to draw the United States into another bloody Middle East war."