For months Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way
- bullet by bullet
- through a list of the men responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians including his own girlfriend in the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing. His next target
- a Libyan diplomat
- should be easy. Prone to drink & currently in Paris without a bodyguard Rapp quickly tracks the man down & sends a bullet into his skull while he's sleeping. But in the split second it takes the bullet to leave the silenced pistol everything changes. The door to the hotel room is kicked open & gunfire erupts all around Rapp. When the news breaks that Libya's Oil Minister has been killed along with three innocent civilians & four unidentified men the French authorities are certain that a wounded gunman is still on the loose in Paris. As the finger-pointing begins Rapp's handlers have only one choice
- deny any responsibility for the incident & race to do damage control. Rapp has become a liability & he must not be taken alive by the French authorities. But alone in Paris on the run from the authorities & from his own employers Mitch Rapp must prepare to fight for his life.