Leia DiAngeles’s first experience of terrorism was losing both her parents at Ground Zero on September 11th, 2001. Twenty years later, she is an FBI counterterrorism analyst hunting a right-wing extremist group referring itself as The Militia and the terrorist who does its dirty work, a man called The Butcher. When a traffic camera finally snaps a photo of The Butcher’s face, though, Leia is horrified to discover that the boogeyman she’s been chasing is actually a decorated American soldier who has been tortured, brainwashed, and ultimately forced to do a terrorist organization’s evil bidding. Leia is determined to rescue Sergeant James “Jamie” Goldt and when she is betrayed by a Bureau colleague and finds herself facing death at The Butcher’s unwilling hands, she risks her life to save his mind and soul. With Jamie free of his captors, he and Leia join forces in a desperate bid to dismantle the organization that destroyed his life, prevent any further attack on an America on the brink of civil war, and rescue the prisoners still suffering in the bowels of a Washington, D.C. prison…even if it means taking on tyrants embedded inside the government Leia dedicated her life to serving, tyrants who would go so far as to create a fake terrorist organization and commit very real acts of terror to achieve their wicked goals.