Regan Grant, the CIA's woman in North Africa, is on a fast track to the top of her profession, favored by management and married to the Agency's Inspector General. Except the Arab Spring happens. Except a group of terrorists is hunting her. Except a major cyberwar operation is falling apart and sucking her into its vortex. As she reports: ... Terrorists. Car crashes. Death. A female officer. A fatwa. Secret night meetings. It was all there, and even the dry official language she had to use could not disguise the story line. ...she'd known the world she'd chosen to inhabit was fraught with dangers and filled with people who would chew her up and spit her out just because they could, that her love life would be necessarily limited and selective and ringed with peril. Most people would hate it. Most people wouldn't rush into a burning house, either ... .