The President's Daughter: A Thriller

At one o’clock in the afternoon, a KC-135 lands at Sfax-Thyna Air Base in Tunisia, carrying Keating and his unsanctioned rescue team. As they prepare to land, Claire Boone asks Keating about the secret letter he wrote to President Barnes.

The team disembarks. Nick Zeppos secures temporary quarters. While the team—including Secret Service agent David Stahl and SEAL Alejandro Lopez—unpacks, Claire confirms the time of sunset. Matt plans for a night raid. Nick returns with bad news: The SEAL platoon they were relying on has been redeployed, jeopardizing the mission.

That afternoon, in Libya’s Nafusa Mountains, Jiang Lijun travels with Walid Ali Osman to recover Mel. Faraj stops their vehicle. Jiang exits to negotiate Mel’s release, not realizing that Faraj is the cousin of her captor.

Faraj pretends to consider the offer before signaling his hidden fighters. A rocket-propelled grenade destroys the Land Rover, and gunfire erupts, killing Walid’s men. Faraj disarms Jiang and informs him he will be taken to see his cousin, Al-Asheed.

At Al-Asheed’s compound, Mel Keating exercises under guard, observing the layout of six buildings, satellite dishes, and trucks. Al-Asheed approaches and taunts her about a previous escape attempt.