New CIA recruit Annie Walker is brought in to retrieve secrets from a Russian spy seeking asylum, but he is assassinated by a sniper before the exchange can be finished.
The Agency wants to get a corrupt Venezuelan businessman. And they decide the best way to do is to get to his mistress who unwittingly helps him hide his illegal dealings. And the best way to get to her is through her brother who is a student and Annie is charged with making contact with him.
After a routine briefcase exchange at a Swiss airport goes wrong, Annie is stuck at a safe house with a Mossad officer whom she's not sure she can trust.
Annie is given the difficult task of asking a reclusive former officer for assistance as the agency tries to track down an African arms dealer who is trying to enter the United States.
Annie discovers that the wife of a U.S. senator is selling secrets to the Indonesians and is planning to frame the senator's chief of staff, with whom he is having an affair.
An Iranian delegate escapes from a world trade convention in Toronto and wishes to defect to the United States. Annie, on vacation in Niagra Falls with her sister, is asked to handle the arrangements.
Ben Mercer ends his rogue operations and comes in from the cold because he needs help rescuing a former asset who has been captured and sent to Sri Lanka, and Annie is sent to help him.
