Mistaken identity. A friend does a favor for a friend taking documents and papers to Dubai to Arab Publishers. He is then taken by a terrorist group who believe he is the other man. The other man was a CIA mule, unknown to all as he was a successful writer. The terrorists were going to behead him on international television. They decide the friend must also be CIA and decide he will substitute just fine. The CIA try to rescue him before the beheading can take place.