A space shuttle is destroyed during flight, and the CIA recalls
disgraced agent Blaine McCracken to uncover the people responsible. A
space shuttle disappears during a routine repair mission, 180 miles
above Earth's surface. An intelligence operative with a dark secret is
murdered, his car set ablaze, while he is in the middle of fulfilling a
depraved fantasy. And a reporter receives a message from a dying man
that suggests the organization responsible may be one of the world's
most prestigious corporations. The government knows just one man who can
untangle this mystery: a throwaway on the deactivated list. Exiled to a
desk job in Paris for stepping on the wrong toes, Blaine McCracken is a
killer--a ruthless pursuer of truth who will let no one, friend or
enemy, stand in his way when civilian lives are in danger. McCracken
gets results, and his country needs him now more than ever.