The action begins six days after a series of explosions devastated Washington, d.c., targeting the national counterterrorism center and killing 185 people, including public officials and CIA employees. It was a bizarre a...The action begins six days after a series of explosions devastated Washington, d.c., targeting the national counterterrorism center and killing 185 people, including public officials and CIA employees. It was a bizarre act of extreme violence that called for extreme measures on the part of elite counterterrorism operative mitch rapp and his trusted team member, mike nash.