For years, the extralegal counterterrorist unit known as the Taskforce has worked in the shadows, anticipating and preventing attacks around the globe. Created to deal with a terrorist threat that shuns the civilized rule of law, it abandoned the same, operating outside of the US Constitution. Though wildly successful, it was rooted in a fear that the cure could be worse than the disease. And now that fear has come home. A Special Forces soldier is killed on an operation in Afghanistan, and complicit in the attack is a government official of an allied nation. While the US administration wants to forget the casualty, one Taskforce member will not. When he sets out to avenge his brother's death, his actions threaten to not only expose the Taskforce's activities, but also destroy a web of alliances against a greater evil. Pike Logan understands the desire, but also the danger.


多年來，不受法律管轄的反恐特遣部隊，在世界各地暗中從事防範恐攻的工作。恐攻威脅無視一切文明律法，所以美國成立了不受憲法約束的特遣部隊來抵禦恐攻。部隊的行動雖很成功，但擔憂卻由然而生，因為部隊本身的問題可能比恐攻還嚴重。而現在令人憂心的事真的發生了。 一名特遣部隊的士兵在阿富汗殉職，而一名盟國的政府官員卻牽涉其中。儘管美國當局試圖淡忘這次的不幸事故，但身為特遣部隊一員的蓋卻牢記心裡。蓋動身為手足報仇時，不僅讓特遣部隊的行動暴露，也讓廣泛合力擊退惡勢力的聯盟瓦解。派克・羅根知道蓋的復仇之慾，也清楚此舉所帶來的險惡。