Jack Ryan, Jr., is on his own. He's been ousted from his position at the Campus, the off-the-books intelligence agency that was set up by his father, the President. As if that's not bad enough, someone is out for Jack's blood. The police think that he was just the victim of a mugging, but he knows a professional assassin when he kills one.

Using clues found on his would-be dispatcher, Jack launches his own shadow campaign to uncover the brutal truth about a world-renowned philanthropist and human rights advocate--and a long-running false-flag war of terror that has claimed thousands of lives....