One call from DC to Rome.
One dead consular official.
One weapon that's been used before.

When Special Agent in Charge David Stilley answers a call in Rome, he expects a routine liaison—until he learns a consular official was murdered with the same weapon used to kill an American banker in London. Pulled into a three-nation manhunt from Milan to Dover, Stilley discovers a pattern too clinical to be random: pro hits, identical casings, and a contract that hums with state-level resources. As the roster of victims grows, the hunt points not just at a lone killer but at a global plot with a single, devastating purpose.

Stilley must force confessions from ghosts—an ex-SAS assassin, a retired colonel, and a web of cut-outs—while keeping his marriage and his conscience intact. Every lead tightens the noose, but the bigger the prize, the greater the risk: evidence points to a covert program whose removal would topple an administration—and the very agencies sworn to defend democracy.

With the clock ticking and an arsenal of friends and enemies closing in, Stilley must decide whether justice is a public reckoning or a private bargain. One wrong move and the truth detonates.

Will he pull the pin?