Lt. Cmdr. Blake Murdock

is none too happy when he gets promoted to a position in the pentagon, organizing a new Navy and Marine quick-strike force. Still, orders are orders, and he is forced to leave his SEAL Team comrades behind.

But when the First Lady is attacked and abducted by terrorists in the diamond-rich country of North Namibia, the President knows only one man tough enough to handle the situation.

Now, Murdock and his SEALs are going to pay the kidnappers a different kind of ransom—in blood.