Benjamin Stafford is a wise cracking former U.S. Army Ranger, who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was raised in Dothan, Alabama, where his parents still live. Stafford has followed in his stepfathers footsteps, and gotten a job with the Department of Homeland Security. As an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent, he works in Washington D.C., where he meets a fellow ICE agent named Frank Hernandez, who wants to be safe, and Beth St. James, who wants to reintroduce him to the God he pushed away years ago. While searching for the reasons behind a big decline in cocaine seizures along the Mexican border, Stafford learns that a fellow agent has been murdered. A U.S. Senator claims that he has proof the U.S. government is behind the deaths of thousands of Americans. Anti-government demonstrations are occurring all over the country. Politicians are calling for the President to resign. Stafford's superiors are trusting him to find out who murdered the agent, why the cocaine seizures have declined, why thousands of Americans are dying, and what part a retired Army General might have had in these crimes. Stafford must find the answers, and save America's future.