He had no idea what it meant to be a hero. Stopping at a roadside diner usually means bad chili, not a hostage situation. But Smithson Group operative Harry van Zandt finds himself in the middle of just that when armed men burst through the door. They're after the woman in the nearby booth, and their message is clear: She's got seventy-two hours to come up with a valuable document or her brother dies. Harry, too, if he doesn't see that she delivers....

When Smithson Group agent Kelly John Beach is caught on video breaking into a building owned by crime syndicate Spectra IT, the SG team plans to replace the tape with one displaying Kelly's erotic encounters with coworker Emma Webster.