President Hayes, advised by Dr. Kennedy and Director Stansfield of the CIA, authorizes American CIA spy Mitch Rapp to kidnap Hezbollah religious leader Fara Harut in the middle of the night after hearing rumors of an impending attack against the United States. Rapp escorts him to Germany, where Dr. Hornig begins to interrogate him and soon discovers Hezbollah has planned an attack against the White House for that very day. In the White House, Hayes is meeting with Democratic National Committee Chairman Russ Piper and his last-minute guest, Prince Kalib of Oman, who is actually international terrorist Rafique Aziz. Rapp notifies the Secret Service of the threat, and agent-in-charge Jack Warch evacuates the President to his bunker just as a team of terrorists led by Aziz takes the White House in a meticulously planned and flawlessly.....