About the title
Nathan Muir is a CIA agent, an intelligence veteran. On his last working day before retirement, he learns that his protégé, talented operative Tom Bishop, is in a Chinese prison and faces execution. It takes the top-class professional Muir very little time to realize that Bishop is going to be sacrificed to the Chinese authorities. Now Nathan has only a few hours left to risk his own neck and pull off an audacious operation to save his student.