What was meant to kill him became the fire that reforged him. Captain David Shaw and fellow Marine Raider John Wyatt endure brutal captivity in a Congolese cobalt mine--hostages not of chance, but of design. Their imprisonment is orchestrated by the Czar's Brotherhood, a secret network manipulating world events for decades. When Shaw uncovers the truth, survival alone won't cut it--he must turn the fight against those who put him there. While Shaw and Wyatt battle to survive, former CIA operative Natalie Hale mounts a relentless rescue to force the hand of the government she once served. Leveraging allies from conflicting circles, her mission puts her in the crosshairs of the Brotherhood's deadly enforcers--learning that this fight has different rules. As their paths converge in a high-stakes manhunt from the historic streets of Switzerland to the icy waters of the Baltic Sea, Shaw and Natalie uncover a conspiracy threaded through the world's most influential circles. To take down an enemy that doesn't officially exist, Shaw will have to fight a war no one will acknowledge--and the cost of victory may be more than he's willing to pay.