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Nobel laureate, financier, and philanthropist Peter Novak - a billionaire committed to fostering global democracy through his Liberty Foundation - has been captured by the Caliph, a near -mythical terrorist who plans to execute him in a matter of days. Running out of time and hope, Novak's people turn to a man with a history of defeating impossible odds: Paul Janson.

Attorney Mary DiNunzio gets a terrifying telephone call while she's working late, then she finds a shadow lurking at her front door. When a lawyer very close to her turns up dead, Mary begins to suspect there is a sinister connection with the case she's been working on.