Two Border Patrol agents lose their lives in a deadly firefight on the Mexican border. On a Virginia highway, the head of the CIA is the victim of a bomb attack. And the White House is confronted with the leaking of secrets that should never have been made public ... and resorts to all means to silence the perpetrators. Harry Nichols, who works for a special unit of the CIA, is still struggling with the consequences of the betrayal in his own ranks. But he has no idea that this was only the beginning ... When CIA director David Lay goes missing and is pronounced dead after a bombing, it is up to him to protect his daughter. No easy task, because a murder squad of ex-Spetsnaz soldiers is hot on their heels - and there is no place they can hide for long. For Nichols is suddenly considered a traitor, and the CIA, the FBI and the police are looking for him. On the run from their pursuers, Nichols finds himself forced to make highly unusual alliances. The mission has priority, the daughter of the CIA director must be protected at all costs and the murderers of her father must be found.