During a Taliban ambush in 2002, Mark Ericksen, a Navy SEAL Team-Six platoon leader, takes command of Operation Daring Eagles in Afghanistan. The deputy commander of JSOC, Colonel Dawkins, orders him by sat phone to kill Bashir Sadozai, his Afghan translator, claiming he is a Talib. At first Ericksen resists the order, but in the thick of battle, surrounded by wounded and dead team members, and with CIA-decoded intercepts proving Sadozai is a spy, Ericksen complies with the order, murdering the unarmed man. A day later, he discovers that his intuition was correct, that the colonel had lied to him. He resigns his commission and goes into private industry, working for defense contractors and hiding his PTSD. In 2009, the CIA receives actionable intel from Saudi intelligence stating a terrorist mastermind plans to attack two American cities with nuclear suitcase bombs. The mastermind, Khalid Al-Bustani, wants to obtain EyeD4 Systems" cutting-edge biometrics security encrypted communications systems. The CIA contracts with Ericksen, now executive vice-president of marketing for EyeD4 Systems, to sabotage the terrorist mastermind"s plans. Can Ericksen avoid discovery, overcome his PTSD, and thwart the nuclear plot before a network of international spies, counterspies, and terrorists achieve their evil goals?