On one evening in Washington, DC, several
high-ranking members of government disappear in a mass kidnapping. Among
the kidnapped is Nick Rendel, a computer software coding expert in
charge of drone programming and strategy. He is the victim with the most
dangerous knowledge, including confidential passwords and codes that
are used to program the drones. If revealed, his kidnappers could
reprogram the drones to strike targets within the United States.
Jon Smith and the Covert One team
begin a worldwide search to recover the officials, but as the first
kidnapping victims are rescued, they show disturbing signs of
brainwashing or mind-altering drugs. Smith's investigation leads him to
Fort Detrick, where a researcher, Dr. Laura Taylor, had been attempting
to create a drug to wipe memory from soldiers suffering from
post-traumatic stress syndrome. But Dr. Taylor's research was suspended
almost a year ago, when she was placed in a mental institution. Now, if
Smith doesn't figure out the brainwashing drug, and track down the
kidnapped Nick Rendel, the kidnappers will soon have the power to carry
out drone strikes anywhere in the world....