Fighting terrorism on foreign ground CIA superagent Mitch Rapp does whatever it takes to protect American freedom. CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States just as the nation's capital prepares for a grand Memorial Day tribute to the veterans of World War II. Racing to Afghanistan Mitch Rapp leads a commando raid on an al Queda stronghold in a remote border village—and defuses plans for a nuclear strike on Washington. The crisis averted the special ops work is done. But Rapp knows in the face of a new kind of enemy nothing is as it seems—and it's up to him alone to avert a disaster of unimaginable proportions.