Derek Stillwater and CIA agent John Hammond, while investigating possible poison gas attacks in war-torn Syria, come face to face with an al Qaeda splinter group and barely escape with their lives. But the two men have created an enemy, a brilliant madman who will stop at nothing to wreak vengeance on them. Derek will race from Syria to Turkey, to Russia and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and finally to Egypt where the leader of the Nazif Brigade will exact his vengeance. Assembling a team of world-class intelligence operatives, Derek Stillwater, troubleshooter for the U.S. State Department, will strike back at Nazif and his men, proving that two can play the game of lex talionis - an eye for an eye. "Mark Terry writes like Lee Child on steroids." --Lansing State Journal