Cam, Gerard, Frances, and Burton form a special forces unit, a tight-knit group. They are the Fifth Squad of the Discreet Operations Branch. Their country, Cinia, has been involved in various conflicts for as long as they can remember. Lately, however, a different kind of threat has been prowling its borders: an unusual, mysterious and nebulous society. The Chancellor—head of the Cinian state—is devising a strategy to deal with them. There's just one problem: it involves a covert espionage operation. It is the Fifth Squad’s job to track down the truths they hide. But at every step they take, they find increasingly strange questions and clues that don't make sense. Nevertheless, their curiosity and tenacity drive them on, and they are determined to unravel this tangle of secrets and lies, and fight their enemies with the best tools they have: stealth and cunning.