When North Korean terrorists abduct a U.S. Ambassador's twin daughters, Air Force Special Agent Patrick O'Donnell is sent to rescue them. He is certain this a one-way operation, and if he is successful in getting the girls out of the North, he knows he may not come back with them. Throughout the operation, he is surrounded by a mystery. Rescuing the young girls takes on a urgency he has never seen before. The President, the Pope, and even his mentor, Colonel John Helmsley, know more than they are saying. What is it about the twins that has the White House and the Vatican so rattled?