Catherine Ling: raised in Hong Kong, she has been a CIA Operative since she was fourteen years old. Now, years later, Catherine is as lethal as she is beautiful. Her mentor, Hu Chang, brilliant and deadly, taught Catherine everything she knows. Now, he is calling her to rescue an imprisoned journalist-a woman who has been subjected to unspeakable horrors. Catherine will be fighting a man so evil, his crimes stretch back 40 years. Can she save a woman she's never even met? And will they survive?