"James Hicks has been a ghost for nearly a quarter century. Except to those rare few Assets who know him as the director of one of the most clandestine intelligence agencies in the world, known simply as The University. Hicks has every weapon and intelligence capability known to man at his disposal. He lives by the motto that Preparation Is Paramount, and he has made a career bending the strongest people in the world to his iron will. Yet he is blindsided...