When international terrorist Ahmed Ali-Yassan is freed from US custody in a spectacular helicopter raid on his prison bus in the Arizona desert, the government is plunged into crisis. The President decides that he must be found at all costs. The CIA assigns Special Agent Alec Mason. Mason is caught up in an elaborate ruse that involves treason at the highest level of the CIA and Department of Homeland Security and his search for Ali-Yassan will initiate events that will forever change Mason’s life.