When a CIA asset is found dead in a Washington hotel-staged to look like a suicide-FBI Special Agent Jack Lawton smells a lie. As he digs deeper, Lawton and his partner Barry Kendal uncover a dangerous truth: the killing wasn't random. It was a warning. What begins as a domestic investigation spirals into a globe-spanning conspiracy involving rogue agents, secret kill squads, and a shadow group manipulating the highest levels of power. With his friend fighting for his life and political pressure mounting, Lawton must rely on old allies and haunted memories from the battlefield. As the bodies pile up and the truth gets darker, Lawton realizes he's not just chasing killers... he's standing between the world and a war that was never supposed to happen.