On a fact finding tour to Syria, Senatorial candidate, Sally Finestre, is captured by ISIS, tortured and starved. For weeks, she witnesses beheadings and betrayal from her captors while enduring endless interrogation and Islamic indoctrination. When a ten million dollar ransom is demanded by ISIS, it is challenged by the US government who send a lone Navy Seal to her rescue. Will they escape and journey through the sands of Syria to freedom or will ISIS have another international press victory and a huge ransom to buy arms and pay mercenary recruits to their cause? Page by page, this story plays out a current international dilemma facing every nation. How do we deal with terrorist kidnappers who demand ransom and use the world's press for their platform?