The Story BeginsThree dozen top intelligence operatives and officers are called to a retreat in the northern Minnesota woods during the dead of winter. When one of them begins to suspect that something is about to go very wrong, he reaches out to allies. They share his apprehension. Something is going to happen. People are going to die. But none of could anticipate what comes to pass.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Enter the world of John Reynolds. A senior intelligence operative with a strange and strained past. Now operating as a puppet master, he seems to be pursuing his own agenda. Off the reservation. What is his grand plan? Why has he gathered three dozen top operatives at a remote lodge in the dead of winter. Why has he deployed squadrons of Delta Force around the lodge? Apparently, only Reynolds knows the answers to these questions. Of course, there is one other, but he doesn't speak