Yael Azoulay does the United Nations' dirty work by cutting deals that most of us never hear about. Equally at home in the caves of Afghanistan, the slums of Gaza, or corporate boardrooms all across the world, Yael believes the ends justify the means, until she's pushed way beyond her breaking point. When Yael is assigned to eastern Congo to negotiate with Jean-Pierre Hakizimani, a Hutu warlord wanted for genocide, she offers him a generous plea...

When she makes a powerful enemy in Clarence Clairborne -- head of a Washington, D.C. lobbying and security firm -- Yael Azoulay, covert negotiator for the U.N., must live long enough to prevent a desperate man from taking desperate measures.