The creator of the CBS series The Unit delivers his fiction debut

Kennesaw Tanner once fought a shadow war.
Now he''s fighting for himself.

Soldier of fortune Kennesaw Tanner is approached by government operatives with an offer: rescue the kidnapped heir of a powerful Persian Gulf sheik whose alliance with the U.S. has made him a target for terrorists.

But what Tanner doesn''t know is that there are elements within the government who want him to fail, that the sands of politics are shifting against him-and that the job he''s being paid to do may cost him more than he bargained for.