After fifteen years as a master spy, Nick Bryson disappeared into anonymity as a professor at an exclusive college in western Pennsylvania—until he's suddenly lured back into the game. Recruited by the CIA, Bryson has been commissioned to track the moves of the Directorate. Once, the ultra-secret intelligence agency was his training ground. Now, it's a multinational terrorist conspiracy bent on exerting control on a global scale.

For Bryson to expose and eliminate the corruption means plunging into his own past, investigating the motives of a beautiful stranger who may be his greatest downfall, and infiltrating a secret nexus of power called Prometheus that holds the terrifying clues to his own past—and the even more terrifying possibilities of the world's future.