Dr. Viviana Lincoln is an expert linguist in several Middle Eastern dialects. Employed by the CIA as a translator, her latest assignment requires a temporary move to a safe-house in Northern Kabul. Translating between jihadist prisoners and their CIA interrogators is all in a day's work. Her mundane routine takes a harrowing turn when a high-level prisoner escapes and the safe-house's location is compromised.

When an underground CIA bunker in Jalalabad, Afghanistan is bombed and raided by terrorists, Agent Marisol Kennedy is stripped naked, bound, and abducted by enemy forces. She knows whatever plan the insurgents have in store for her is gruesome at best... And that her only chance of survival is escape.