<strong>CLANCY MEETS LE CARRÉ IN MATTHEW QUIRK'S ACTION-PACKED NEW THRILLER.<br></strong><br>John Byrne, a retired army doctor, has been working in the overnight Emergency Room of a Washington D.C. hospital, trying to outrun his past. The disavowed Joint Special Operations Command squad he once served with ended up carrying out a massacre deemed the worst atrocity in modern times. No one has seen the squad's leader, Thomas Hayes, since--until now.<br><br>Hayes has reunited his former crew to initiate a series of ever-escalating heists that will either prove their innocence beyond a shadow of a doubt, or culminate in the worst terrorist attack the United States has seen since 9/11. Byrne isn't sure who to believe--his former squad-mates or the leader of the task force tracking Hayes--the very person Hayes claims is responsible for the atrocities for which he and his squad took the fall.