Following in the footsteps of his grandfather, the legendary Terry Kovack, Steve lreland is a trained killer. With his Special Forces team, he does his job quickly, quickly, with absolute certainty. And in the war against terror, his services are needed more than ever. Now, he finds himself hunting a different kind of prey. For when he is called upon to stalk and destroy a Middle Eastern terrorist cabal, he slowly realizes that he is following in another assassin's wake. Someone is staying one step ahead of lreland and his team, taking out the enemy in his own way with lethal precision, and disappearing into the dark.
But what lreland doesn't know is that his search for the truth will lead him to confront the ghosts of the Past. A band of fighting men who were never supposed to exist; a team of soldiers who will go anywhere and fight anyone for their country; and a legacy that runs in Steve's own blood…