Noble Cause

Mike Shocklee is an operations officer sent to Somalia as part of a CIA element providing intelligence support. His mission is to locate and reactive former CIA assets who can provide intelligence on rival clan elements that are actively opposing their efforts. He manages to locate and reactive the cell, but an unfortunate turn of events cause him to initiate a risky gambit.

Without proper authority, he moves his team from the CIA’s base of operations to a safe house, a move he deems necessary to take control of his dysfunctional intelligence cell. Their cover is eventually blown and Shocklee was wounded during a hasty getaway. After a period of convalescence, he returns to work at CIA headquarters with a permanent limp and a chip on his shoulder. He is given command of an Anti-Terrorism Center.

With no reward for his performance, he strikes out at the Agency and his immediate superior by developing a clandestine plan to recruit a group of men to hijack an oil tanker and hold it and the crew for a large ransom.

Shocklee uses his access to the CIA’s infrastructure to refine the details of his hijacking operation. When things go terribly wrong, he turns to an ally to take care of the problem, and he does. The man responsible for building the CIA base camp is called in to investigate and learns that Shocklee has been on an unsanctioned CIA operation. He begins to put pieces of the puzzle together and that’s when the real problems begin.