On a beautiful Greek island, Captain Beth Walker marries CIA agent Matt Price, but after her nephew, Steven, leaves the island, he is kidnapped. When Arab television shows Steven kneeling blindfolded and his captor threatening to behead him, the CIA identifies the location as Damascus, and sends Beth, Matt, and an Israeli agent to rescue him. The chase moves to Kurdistan, where an American Special Forces colonel, senior Kurdish leaders, and an avatar of the Cult of Angels agree to aid them.