South China Sea, Island off of Taiwan. Two agents from opposite ends of the world find themselves locked into a life-or-death ordeal that tests their skills, their attitudes, their patience, and their morality. A newhire C.I.A agent posted on a quiet Taiwanese island has his quiet, normal, relatively unexperienced world shaken when a GRU Russian black-ops killer intrudes on his territory with one mission and one mission alone: to kill him. What follows forces them both to reconsider what they know as normal life, and how they must approach the crazy, yet credible, situation laid out before them.