John Crenshaw, a small-town lawyer, recruits some friends who are ordinary citizens and attempts to track down the terrorists and stop their plans for mass casualties. Their pursuit leads them from rural Alabama to the Gulf Coast, to Key West. Along the way, they receive help from a CIA officer as the global implications of the attack are uncovered.

Calvin Poole is an attorney and former criminal prosecutor with exposure to counter-terrorism training and tactics as practiced by local, state, and federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies as well as units of the U.S. Military. He is also a student of comparative theology.