Twenty-three-year-old, Joshua Thompson, editor of the New York Post-Examiner's Youth Beat Section is fed up with his dull life writing YA news stories.

On the Friday of Memorial Day Weekend, he receives an anonymous tip about undercover police in high schools posing as students entrapping juvenile suspects and violating their civil rights.

Thompson jumps at the opportunity to go undercover as a student himself to document the abuse of police powers firsthand.

Aided by the tipster who claims she works at Delmarva state police headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, Thompson enrolls in White Clay Senior High School in a small suburban town in northern Delaware, and in September, begins his search for undercover police narcs among the school's 1,200 students.

Thompson must navigate the sex, drugs, and mores of modern day high schoolers, at the same time gather evidence against the formidable narcs without being detected as an impostor himself.

But the best laid schemes of reporters and narcs can easily go awry...