The Governor of Louisiana, Chip Majors, is at the top of his game. He is the number one pick for the vice presidential nominee for his party. But his past as a secret National Security Agency operative has now come back to haunt him. Now he must fight for his political career, and also his life!

When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...