Holly Barker, the sexy, no-nonsense former police chief from Orchid Beach, Florida has joined an elite intelligence unit hunting down terrorists on American soil. Their first prey, however, may turn out to be all-American. Teddy Fay, the ex-CIA technology wizard, apparently blew up his own airplane while being hotly pursued by the FBI and U.S. Navy pilots. But now in a series of attacks on a new kind of victim -- terrorists with diplomatic immunity -- makes some in the government, up to and including the president of the United States, believe Teddy may be back. And Holly finds herself in the thick of the hunt.