XIII's skills are put to the test when he has to infiltrate a terrorist training camp on US soil--but his enemies have their own plants in the group. Meanwhile, Jones' loyalties are questioned by dangerous individuals in the government.
Irina offers XIII valuable information in exchange for a watch. XIII soon finds out that bargaining with an enemy is a complicated and dangerous endeavor.
In order to contact his former trainer, XIII gets himself arrested and thrown deep into a Venezuelan prison. Getting in will be easy, but getting out might prove to be impossible--and some people would like to keep him there forever.
Irina continues to cause problems for XIII, who goes in search of one of the agents that was with him on the Costa Verde mission. Meanwhile, the president gets involved in XIII's search for his past.
Following up on a lead he got while in the Venezuelan prison, XIII travels to Ireland--with Jones in tow. There, they soon find themselves in the middle of an international arms deal that could have repercussions across the world.
Suddenly a free agent, Jones enlists the aid of a world-class hacker to gather intelligence--but can she really trust him? In Costa Verde, XIII meets an opposition leader who has intimate knowledge of his former life as a revolutionary.