Reece McNair, Carter Stephens, Brian Godfrey, Amir Farajian, and Kristen Hayes become close friends while at the Farm, the CIA’s legendary training facility where they were taught the tradecraft of spies.Insurgents kidnap Reece while they are deployed in Iraq. Anticipating she will be executed for propaganda purposes her friends conduct an unsanctioned rescue operation, facing serious repercussions.Threatened by termination and federal charges, an unlikely savior appears. The head of the CIA’s reviled counterintelligence division convinces the team to work for her as an alternative to criminal prosecution.Each officer hides a secret worthy of immediate termination and is rightly delighted to avoid a federal investigation. The entrapped ensemble soon specializes in finding and forestalling spies targeting U.S. interests.Counterintelligence has long been considered career suicide at the CIA. Consequently, leadership euphemistically refers to them as THE SUICIDE SQUAD.