The USA was still reeling from 911 when terrorism struck the University of Iowa. The unfolding crisis brings together a strange cast of characters: a grieving hospital chaplain, a Vietnam War vet with dark secrets, a transplanted New York teen, a high school teacher, a brilliant California grad student, a research scientist, a tough Chicago FBI agent, a heroic black Lab and a glass of milk. The action ricochets between West Branch and Iowa City, Iowa. Hundreds of lives are at risk. Iowa's back roads carry death to the University of Iowa campus. Terror visits the heartland.