The year is 1956 and the world is at peacebut not for long. A rogue British MI6 agent code name Lucky Break is planning to assassinate the president of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser with the intent of igniting a powder keg under Egypts ally the Soviet Union and starting World War III.Fearing that the United States will be dragged into a war that no one wants and with the haunting specter of a nuclear holocaust looming the CIA sends Alex Logan to Egypt to hunt down and kill the spy before he assassinates Nasser. Logan pursues him through the streets and alleyways in a cat-and-mouse chase in the ancient city of Alexandria only to find himself consumed by his own past. But Logan has a bigger problem to solve. He has only seven days to find and stop Lucky Break in a city of four million people before he strikes and the Soviets play their doomsday card. The stakes have never been higher. In this fast-paced Cold War thriller Logan is up against a ticking clockand impossible odds.