The Guardian---------pan macmillan
When a CIA informant from Kandahar is gunned down in a suburban
area of Virginia outside D.C., special Agent Jack Saunders is tasked
with uncovering a plot that could alter the fate of Afghanistan and
unsettle a tepid peace in the Middle East. But when a raid on a radical
safe house goes horribly wrong, Jack finds himself without support
within his own government.
Determined to find answers on his own,
Jack enlists the aid of Cianna Phelan, a disgraced former war hero
trying to put her life back together. When Cianna’s brother, Charlie,
returns to South Boston from active duty in Afghanistan and immediately
goes missing, Cianna and Jack find themselves in a race against time not
only to save his life, but to prevent an international conspiracy at
the highest levels of the US intelligence community. As lives are lost
in the warrens of Boston’s clannish underworld, Jack and Cianna realize
they are on the trail of one of the most sacred artefacts in all of
Islam. And when the bullets start to fly, they realize they can never
know whom to trust, and nothing is what it seems.