Before the events of the first book began, the League of Specially Trained Individuals' American agents had there own problems to face. With crumbling leadership and the police on their tail, the murderers and assassins of the Los Angeles Hideout find themselves fighting for their lives in a face off against the authorities and time. The young Connor Franta knows he has to do what he must to keep his friends - and himself - alive, but with limited resources and no allies, it will be a struggle he had never expected to come.