Returning from his mission in Hong Kong, Court Gentry receives what appears to be a simple contract: a group of Syrian exiles in Paris hires him to kidnap the mistress of Syrian dictator Ahmed Azzam in order to obtain information that could destabilize Azzam's regime. Cort turns Bianca Medina over to the rebels, but his work doesn't end there. He soon learns that she has a son - the sole heir to Azzam's rule - and a serious threat to the powerful wife of the Syrian president. Now, to gain Bianca's cooperation, Cort must get her son out of Syria alive. As the clock ticks on Bianchi's life, he hides out in a free trade zone in the Middle East - and finds himself in the right place at the right time to attempt to end one of the most brutal dictatorships on earth...