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What Mission Critical is about
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- On a CIA transport flight, Court Gentry watches a security team bring a hooded prisoner on board, bound for questioning in England about a mole at Langley. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
a security team brings a hooded man aboard
- When they land at a remote British airbase, attackers seize the prisoner, and Gentry, the only one left alive, is ordered to get him back. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
Gentry, the lone survivor, is ordered to track down the assassins
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