Ghost is good at what he does, quietly and efficiently executing the missions assigned to him by his superiors at Rescue & Investigations Global. They might not be the sorts of jobs he can ever brag about, but he's damned good at them. That is, until a mission to assassinate nearly results in the death of the wrong man, and Ghost and his superiors realize that they have been deceived, and that a greater game is being played. Then a mission to kill becomes a mission to rescue, and Ghost finds himself ordered to protect a man who is like nothing he has ever encountered before...