Titus Black never gives a warning when he's about to pull the trigger.With the dogs of war clamoring for a new conflict, Vice President Charles Bullock goes missing in a brazen abduction under the dead of night. The Phoenix Foundation's operative Titus Black and Christina Shields are tasked with bringing Bullock home with a near-impossible directive: safely recover him without anyone finding out that he was ever taken.While Black and Shields navigate landmines in the field, Phoenix Foundation director J.D. Blunt is caught up in a near-impossible mission of his own: keeping the lid on an explosive story with national security implications. In the meantime, the foundation's top investigator Ned Edgerton digs in to find out who's behind the plot.As allegiances are revealed, Black and Shields must complete their mission before pursuing an unlikely candidate who was behind the abduction - and stopping the perpetrator from committing an even more deadly act, one that would endanger the lives of thousands of innocent people.