The First Commandment A Thriller

"Six months ago: In the dead of night, five of the most dangerous detainees are pulled from their isolation cells in Guantanamo Bay and told to strip off their orange jumpsuits. Issued civilian clothes and driven to the base airfield, they are loaded aboard a 747 and set free. Present day: Covert counterterrorism agent Scott Harvath awakens to discover that his world has been changed violently by a sadistic assassin with a personal vendetta"--Publisher website (January 2008).