"Kate Cavanaugh can’t escape the CIA. Now her former employer wants her to find unfindable hostages held by ghostlike terrorists in the barren lands of the Sahel, with oversight and meddling from the very people she left the Agency to escape and nary a shred of actionable intelligence to assist. There’s not enough money in the world to make this worth her while. But husband Nick and business partner Jake see nothing but action, adventure, and glory for Sandstorm International, and Kate reluctantly agrees to direct her prodigious talents toward the liberation of American and French hostages in Mali."