Mark Pierce is a CIA agent with a conscious, he will no longer follow orders blindly. He'll ask tough questions to himself and others rather than be blindly obedient.  Which obviously the chain of command don't exactly relish. 

He's asked to assist in the extraction of a lawyer from Pakistan who wants to defect to India. Married to someone high up in the counter intelligence structure, she is a prized acquisition. Roshini's husband has been playing with some very unsavoury characters and he's managed to turn a DARPA scientist and she has the proof in her possession.  

Mark really is a great character.  He's intelligent, loyal, skilled and seems to power through on sheer determination.  He doesn't know the meaning of the word quit. Roshini is a wonderful foil to Mark; she loved her husband but when she learned the truth he was hiding, all her dreams turned to ash and she can no longer stomach him.

There are wonderfully technical and character driven scenes interspersed with full-on, action scenes. Mark is still such an enigma though - the little snippets of his previous life (and identity) are still so fragmented, we really still know next to nothing about him.  

Now to await the next adventure.