For Thomas Morgan, the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington provide an opportunity to keep one step ahead of the law.

With a broken marriage, two children and an overdraft, the former soldier, sometime spy and occasional thief finds a new market for his skills -- in Afghanistan, tracking down Taliban and al Qaeda fugitives. And when the world's most wanted man disappears, Morgan's talents as a bounty hunter command a much higher premium . . .

Washington offers $25 million for its arch foe -- dead or alive. But only one man knows how to find him, and only Morgan has the expertise and grit to get close enough to kill him. Trouble is, the two men are enemies . . .