Scott Carter, agent for S.E.C.U.R.E Specifying, Engaging, and Capturing, Unusual, Radical, Elements]., is inducted into a secret society formed to fight a threat called Deshante, a race of beings with extraordinary powers used only for evil. Carter's world of black ops missions is turned inside out as friends are eliminated or hunted and he is betrayed from within his own agency Now with his new allies, Carter beats a mob contract and a threat from S.E.C.U.R.E.'s renegade leader, the Head