num_pages: 352
description: In a safe house near the Syrian border a clandestine American operations team readies to launch a dramatic mission months in the making. Their target: the director of Social Media for ISIS Abu Muslim al-Naser.Multiple analysts as well as a senior Congresswoman are in the country to monitor the raid but before the team can launch the safe house is attacked.What unfolds in the bloody aftermath is a political and public relations nightmare. As horrific videos of the Americans are published on the Internet the blame-storming back in Washington goes into full swing focusing on how the intel for the raid was developed and how it might have leaked.As the search for answers mounts half spy half covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath quickly finds himself at the center of the storm. Working for a private intelligence agency contracted by both the CIA and the DoD it was Harvath who pinpointed al-Naser. But how could ISIS have known the Americans were coming much less where they would be staying? There has to be more to it; something everyoneespecially the politiciansis missing.With the weight of the attack on his shoulders and several powerful members of Congress calling for his head Harvath is forced to launch his own operation to unravel what went wrong and exact revenge.But as he nears the truth and the deadly puzzle pieces begin to fall into place Harvath will uncover another actora rogue player hell-bent on forcing Americas hand and drawing it into a plot more dangerous than anyone in Washington could have imagined.
language: English
title: Foreign Agent
publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books