​While Director Nick Fury manages a catastrophic security crisis at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, he takes a secret call from his spouse on an untraceable burner phone. The contrast is stark: while his agents see a ruthless, untouchable spymaster, the reader knows him simply as a husband who accidentally stole the good kitchen vegetable peeler. Sensing danger as S.H.I.E.L.D. begins to crumble from within, Fury warns the reader that he won't be home for a few days, fiercely determined to protect the existence of his hidden civilian marriage. Three hundred miles away in their highly secured, off-the-grid home, the reader prepares for the worst, unaware that within forty-eight hours, Fury and the world's most wanted fugitives will be fleeing straight to their doorstep.