Book 5 in the Matt Drake series. .A new agency, a new era. Matt Drake goes head to head with the government of North Korea. Whilst en route to investigate an assassination threat, Drake and Mai Kitano are blown out of the skies and cast adrift in a storm-tossed ocean, only to be marooned on a deserted island..Back home, the clock is ticking, but the deadly jigsaw puzzle of events refuses to fit together. Assassins stalk the streets of Washington DC. Civilians are being murdered by ordinary-seeming Americans turned expert killers, and for no apparent reason. Hayden and her team search for the fateful link between five total strangers. .Mai, almost single-handedly, tries to capture the enemy island, and Drake storms his way over land from North Korea and across China and Europe, destroying a human trafficking ring on the way. And as the pieces finally come together the new team are thrust into a literal race against time, a deadly interstate contest of vehicular warfare. Only the hardest, fastest and most capable men and women will make it out alive.