Eight days. That’s all Geneva gives him.

When Nathan Keller is pulled from a quiet afternoon on Lac Léman, the assignment sounds contained: fly to Angola, stabilize a failing humanitarian operation, and get the staff out before the money — and the security — run out. He’s handled worse alone.

But nothing in Angola stays contained.

What begins as a financial collapse turns into something far darker: a trafficking network stretching from Luanda to the aftermath of Rwanda’s genocide. Nine girls are missing. A shadow known only as The Smoke leaves no trail. And the only way forward forces Nathan to rely on people he barely knows — a finance officer with no field experience, intelligence officers with their own agendas, a young woman who should never have been sent, and a daughter he’s only just begun to understand.

The rules change without warning. Trust comes late, if at all.

Eight days. After that, the mission ends. One way or another.