The CIA created him. Now they want him dead. The gripping, action-packed first book in the Wall Street Journal bestselling Jack Noble thriller series from L.T. Ryan. With the world focused on Afghanistan, Jack Noble finds himself on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq. A Marine in name only, Jack is on loan to the CIA. Normally an integral part of the team, he finds that he is nothing more than a security detail in Iraq. Jack and his partner Bear Logan have a run-in with four CIA special agents over the treatment of an Iraqi family. Within hours Jack and Bear are detained, and later returned to the United States to face the consequences. All Jack wanted was to finish his enlistment and move on with his life. All he did was intervene and save a family from unwarranted violence at the hands of four CIA agents. But he soon discovers that he did far more than intervene... Noble has placed himself dead square in the middle of a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of the U.S. government.