Conducting a routine cover development trip to Tajikistan,Pike and Jennifer learn that Afghanistan has fallen, and there’s a man on therun. One that has done more for the United States in Afghanistan than anyoneelse. Pulled in to extract him, Pike collides headlong into a broader mystery:his covert company, along with every other entity in the Taskforce, has beenhit with a ransomware attack, and there’s some connection between the Talibanand the hack. Given the order to track down the perpetrators, he has noidea that the problem set is much, much larger and more dangerous than a simpleattack on his organization. That hack was just a test-run, and the real one iscoming soon, engendered by a former NSA specialist in the U.S. government. A man who wants to return to the bipolar world of the ColdWar, the turncoat has cloaked his attack behind hackers from Serbia and Russia,and if successful, his target will alter the balance of power on the globalstage. So far, the specialist has remained one step ahead of the Taskforce, buthe has just made one massive mistake: hitting Pike Logan.
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