Audio Book Description:
Todd Belknap, a legendary field agent for Consular Operationswith a reputation as acowboy, is cut loose from the agency after an operation goeswrong. At the same time, Jared Rinehart, his best friend and fellow agent, is abducted in Lebanon by a Militiagroup with a vicious reputation. When the government refuses to either rescue Rinehart or negotiate for his release, Belknap decides to take mattersinto his own hands. Meanwhile, hedge fund analystAndrea Bancroft gets a surprising call-she is to receive an unexpected bequest of $12 milion from a cousin she never met,but with one condition: She must agree to sit on the board of the Bancroft family foundation, a charitable organization that is run by the familypatriarch, Paul Bancroft. Having never been involved with, or even met, the family-her mother was briefly married toa Bancroft and cut off all contact manyyears ago-Andrea is intrigued.But the foundation, which is dedicated to doing strategic good deeds, appears less and less benign the more deeply involved shegets. What exactly is their involvementwith the "Genesis", a mysterious individual working to destabilize the geopolitical balance at the risk ofmillions of lives? As events escalate, Todd Belknap and AndreaBancroft come together and must form an uneasy alliance if they are to uncover thetruth behind "Genesis"-before it is too late.