The head of clandestine operations in Afghanistan has been kidnapped, his four bodyguards executed in cold blood. With the CIA plunged into crisis mode, Rapp is dispatched to find his missing friend, Joe Rickman, at all costs. He isn’t the only one looking for Rickman; an FBI special agent is at his heels, determined to blame Rapp for the bloody debacle. Rapp is, however, the only one who knows certain things about the vanished black ops master—secrets that in the wrong hands could prove disastrous. With elements of his own government undermining him—and America’s security— at every turn, Rapp must be as ruthless and deceitful as his enemies to complete this razor’s-edge mission.

阿富汗秘密行動的頭子喬里克曼被綁架了，他的四個保鏢則遭冷血處決。隨著美國中情局陷入危機，拉普被派往阿富汗，不惜一切代價要尋找他失踪的朋友里克曼。但拉普不是唯一在找尋克里曼的人，有一位FBI探員也緊緊追著拉普的腳步也來到了阿富汗，他堅信拉普是這場血淋淋慘劇的罪魁禍首。不過，拉普的確是唯一清楚里克曼秘密的人，而這些天大的祕密若是落入壞人之手，後果絕對不堪設想。然而，美國政府裡的一些不良份子也明裡暗地的阻撓拉普，甚至危及到美國自身國家安全，在如此內外交迫的強況之下，拉普只能跟敵人一樣狡猾無情才能完成這項危急的任務。