This is the continuing saga of Daniel Jameson McKenzie, along with his friends and family. In their first adventure in The Extractor, they battled sex traffickers in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, as well as those recruiting child soldiers in Uganda and South Sudan. This time, Daniel and Lynne are caught up in a plot where the adult children of the president of the United States have been abducted, accompanied by a demand for a ransom and the freeing of a terrorist imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. After hearing of Daniel's previous exploits, the president seeks his advice on how to get his children back. Daniel makes a rather unorthodox assessment of where the children are likely held, which differs dramatically from the intelligence experts in the US government. He also recommends a complex and dangerous mission to bring them out through an underwater cave passage using scuba. The president's advisers disagree, and Daniel's assessment of the situation and his rescue plan is discounted. A three-pronged strike is ultimately authorized using covert military special ops teams. Against the counsel of his advisers, however, and without their knowledge, the president also sends Daniel to go after his children using his plan as an insurance policy.
The adventure takes Daniel to the Yucatán Peninsula and through underwater caves in the rescue attempt. In the final moments of their escape in a small plane from a remote runway, they take fire from a sniper, wounding the president's daughter and striking the plane. With damaged flight controls, they are forced to crash-land on a US aircraft carrier deployed off the coast.
In the ensuing investigation of events, questions arise as to Daniel's honesty, fidelity, and patriotism when evidence comes to light that seems to conclusively implicate him in a terrorist plot. Even those closest to him begin to suspect that he may not be the man they thought he was.
