"In the shadows, there is truth." It's 1984, at the height of the Cold War, and Colonel Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt IV is a man on the run. A Special Forces legend, fourth-generation soldier, and great-nephew of a president, he led a team of CIA ghosts into the darkest corners of Southeast Asia. When Colonel Roosevelt refused to carry out the last phase of a top-secret mission, powerful men buried him under fabricated charges. The road to redemption is treacherous. Now a hunted man, Teddy must stay ahead of a kill order written in the language of plausible deniability because he knows a dark secret-one so explosive, the shadow government in Washington will kill to protect it.