Drawn by the anger and loyalties learned at a grandfather s knee， second generation Irish-American Jamie McGuire has vanished into a world of explosive secrets and brutal betrayals. Now Jamie s father， Michael -- an advertising executive with no allegiance to any cause -- must rescue his lost son from a violent place where revolution is the faith and freedom means death. But it may already be too late， for Jamie has been chosen to play two indispensable roles in a bloody， long-running international drama: scapegoat...and martyr.