Anti-terrorist task force agent John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate mayfield, have just posted overseas to yemen, one of the most dangerous places in the Middle East. They haven't been given much information about their mission, except that they will be working with the small team to track down one of the masterminds behind the USS Cole Bauman a high Ranking qaeda operative known as the panther. Ruthless and elusive, he's wanted for multiple terrorist acts in murders, and the US government is determined to bring him down, no matter the cost. Now, as latecomers to a deadly game, John and Kate don't know the rules, the players, or the score. What they do know is that there is more to their assignments than meets the eye, and that the hunters are about to become the hunted.