Elektra Vol 3 #01 Newsstand Edition

(W) Brian Michael Bendis (A) Chuck Austen (CA) Greg Horn

More all-out international action with Marvel's sexiest assassin! It's war in Iraq over the mysterious artifact known as the Scorpio Key! And Elektra's right in the middle of it, battling for her life against a surprise enemy! Plus, the espionage agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D. has a new secret- and it may cost Nick Fury his life!

Elektra is contracted by S.H.I.E.L.D. to take out Middle Eastern terrorist Saddam Abed Dasam and Hydra who Saddam hired. S.H.I.E.L.D. wants Elektra to assassinate Saddam with no one finding out and take a mysterious box that is in Saddam's possession. For these Nick Fury promises, Elektra`s past sins will be forgotten. While Stanley and a fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. member go out for a walk in Baghdad they are attacked by Hydra but are saved by Elektra. She says there is a traitor among S.H.I.E.L.D. and things escalate into a murder or what appears to be.