Mason Briggs heads a specialized group of experts. They are the group the government calls to execute missions that simply cannot be handled at the public level. If they are caught, they will be disowned completely. Always before, the group has completed the missions to which they are sent. Recently, they have been hired to cause the downfall of a dictator in a former Russian state. They are on track to be successful again, but then things begin to get complicated. The team faces struggles beyond anything they have trained for. Personal loyalties and professional obligations clash and there are choices to be made that might affect the future of the enterprise and of the the team itself.