For ten years Saleh Al-Filistini served his terrorist masters well. Many bombings and murders throughout southern Europe and the Near East bore his mark. Saleh's most recent operation, planned over a year, fails. His Al Qaeda superiors wrote the failure off as a stroke of bad luck, but Saleh sees the devastating outcome as much more than a fluke. No longer able to live with himself, he decides to stop the madness, but his associates do not agree with his change of heart. Al Qaeda wants him dead, and Italian and U.S. authorities want him alive. Carabinieri Captain Angelo Randi and U.S. Marshals Service Inspector Joe Costa, leaders of a new Italian Fugitive Task Force, know he is key to breaking the terror organization's back, and have plans for his future.