The abduction of a Russian controller and his teenage daughter by a ruthlessly professional terrorist threatens worldwide economic stability. Agent Sydney Bristow and the black ops unit APO are called in for the rescue. The stakes are high: they have less than forty-eight hours before the controller must deliver a speech crucial to the economic future of Russia and Eastern Europe. But sometimes even the best intelligence is incomplete. The true threat is bigger, and closer at hand, than anyone considered, and only an emotionally shattered teenage girl can make everything right - or single-handedly cause a tragedy of unimaginable scale.