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One of the world's greatest men has been kidnapped. Nobel laureate, international financier, and philanthropist Peter Novak - a billionaire who has committed his life and fortune to fostering democracy around the world through his Liberty Foundation has been captured by forces led by the near-mythical terrorist known as The Caliph. Holding Novak in a fortress, The Caliph has refused to negotiate his release, planning instead to brutally execute Novak in a matter of days. Running out of time, Novak's people turn to a man with a long history of defeating impossible odds: Paul Janson. For decades, Janson was an operative whose exploits made him a legend in the notorious U.S. covert agency Consular Operations. No longer able to live with the brutality and personal loss that marked his career, Janson retired from the field and nothing could lure him back. Nothing except Peter Novak, a man who once saved Janson's life when everyone was powerless to help. With the considerable resources of The Liberty Foundation at his disposal, Janson hastily assembles a crack extraction team, setting in motion an ingenious rescue operation. But the operation goes horribly wrong. Janson is marked for death, the target of a "beyond salvage" order issued from the highest level of the government. Now he is running for his life, pursued by Jessica Kincaid, a young agent of astonishing ability who - as a student of Janson's own lethal arsenal of tactics and techniques - can anticipate and counter his every move. To survive, Janson must outrace a conspiracy gone beyond the control of its originators. To win, he must counter with a conspiracy of his own. With mere days, perhaps only hours, remaining, and shadowed by a secret that links Janson's violent life with that of the visionary peacemaker Peter Novak, Janson's only hope is to uncover the nearly unimaginable truth behind these events - a truth that has the power to foment wars, topple governments, and change the very course of history.