After a CIA agent mysteriously dies overseas, his top asset surfaces with a startling and terrifying claim. There’s just one problem—no one knows if she can be trusted. But when six exchange students go missing, two airplane passengers trade places, and one political-asylum seeker is arrested, a deadly chain of events is set in motion. With the United States facing an imminent and devastating attack, America’s new president must turn to covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath to help carry out two of the most dangerous operations in the country’s history. Code-named “Gold Dust” and “Blackbird,” they are shrouded in absolute secrecy as either of them, if discovered, will constitute an act of war.

一位中央情報局的探員在海外神秘死亡後，立刻有人要求得到他龐大資產的所有權；現在就只有一個問題，那就是沒人知道她值不值得信任。但隨著六位交換學生失蹤、兩架客機的乘客互換機位、一位尋求政治庇護者被逮捕，致命的連鎖事件一一展開。美國面臨一場迫在眉睫的毀滅性攻擊，新任總統必須立即調派臥底反恐間諜史考特‧哈凡來執行美國史上最危險的兩次行動，代號分別為「金粉」和「黑鳥」。這兩場行動都必須在完全保密的狀態下進行，一旦暴露，便將演變為戰爭。