In a daring and chilling debut, Brad Thor draws us into a
sinister labyrinth of political intrigue and international
terrorism, serving up an explosive cocktail of unrelenting
action as one man is pushed to the edge.
On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the unthinkable has
just become a nightmarish reality: thirty Secret Service
agents have been viciously executed and the vacationing
president of the United States kidnapped by one of the most
lethal terrorist organizations in the Middle East -- the
Fatah Revolutionary Council.
But surviving agent and ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath doesn't
believe the Fatah Revolutionary Council is responsible for
the attack. Driven by his professional code of duty and
honor, Harvath creates his own rules to get some answers.
But his search for the truth raises the blood pressure of
his superiors...and casts his own life in mortal jeopardy.
The deadly machinations have been set in motion by a
shadowy coalition, comprising some of the highest-ranking
officials in government and business -- men who operate
above the law, men who realize the threat Harvath poses to
their hidden agenda...men who will do anything to stop him.
Framed for murder and on the run, Harvath takes his own
brand of justice to the towering mountains of Switzerland
where he finds an improbable ally in the beautiful Claudia
Mueller of the Swiss Federal Attorney's Office. Together
they must brave the subzero temperatures and sheer heights
of treacherous Mount Pilatus -- and enter the den of the
most notorious team of professional killers the world has
ever known.