From New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson comes another heart-stopping installment in the popular Tier One series, perfect for fans of Jack Carr.
After rescuing a teammate from a covert detention facility in East Asia, it's back to business as usual for John Dempsey and Task Force Ember: conducting counterterrorism operations in denied areas.
An opportunity to strike a master Houthi drone engineer sends the team to Yemen, but things start to go wrong almost as soon as their boots hit the ground. What is their local contact hiding, and why didn't their CIA contact show up to the rendezvous? Meanwhile, First Lady Petra Jarvis's job—juggling the roles of wife, first lady, and Ember liaison—is about to get a lot harder. The presidential election is only two weeks away, and President Kelso Jarvis's SEAL instincts are failing him. Good in the heat of battle and in the situation room, Jarvis is floundering in debate prep, allowing his political rival to paint him as a caricature of the war-mongering, hot-tempered SEAL.
What neither Petra nor Dempsey know is that they are both in the sights of a master spy operating right under their noses in DC—a spy with orders to sow chaos. As election night nears, Dempsey and Petra are drawn further into his web, and soon it's hard to tell who is manipulating whom.
A dangerous game is afoot, and to win Dempsey and Ember may well be forced into a bargain with the devil ...
