A new crisis strikes the Middle East, one that threatens to destabilize the entire region and plunge the United States into a devastating war from which the country would never recover. When the US Ambassador to Israel is taken hostage in the glittering desert metropolis of Dubai, a covert team of elite US operatives - led by black ops veteran Wayne Wilkins - are sent in to rescue her. But there are unseen forces at work that threaten the the terrorists' uncanny ability to predict the operatives' moves, a tense military alliance that forces the team underground, and a dark secret held by the ambassador herself - a secret that could destroy nations. It soon becomes clear that the CIA operatives are merely pawns in a larger game, and the only way to avoid being sacrificed in the impending maelstrom is to recover the ambassador - and the secret she guards - before the terrorists can spark an all-consuming World War III.