At an Istanbul hotel the CIA gets word from an insider that Iranian forces intend to kill a station chief. Ex-CIA agent John Wells an expert in the Arab field is summoned to investigate just as the tip comes true. So when the sources’s next warning is of a radioactive package on a ship bound for the United States it’s taken seriously. As the threat rises something doesn’t feel rights to Wells’s old CIA boss. Sent on a private mission to uncover the truth Wells must now use every skill he has to hunt down the threat. Because soon it may be too late to pull the United States back from the brink of war. Can John Wells succeed?