The second of the Sean Murphy series. Sean is assigned the lead for a new Eyeball Inc. contract, a contract with minimal risk, as a reward for the capture of the drug kingpin known as El Honcho. A Bedouin informant warns of pending terrorist attacks. Administration officials ignore this intelligence ... until East Coast traffic is severely disrupted and a significant portion of Los Angeles's water supply is taken offline. The President's $50 million bounty placed on this new 'Bin Laden' want-to-be entices Colonel Anderson, Sean's boss at Eyeball, to task Sean to form a 'capture team,' go to Tikrit, and kidnap the new terrorist leader. Repercussions ... an attack on Sean's family.