When down-on-her-luck Lexie Simmons is fired from her job as a book editor, she takes a one-time gig at an arms exhibition—only to get mistaken as the world's most notorious illicit weapons dealer: a woman known only as the Honey Badger.

In a whirlwind, she is commissioned by a government agency to pretend to be the Honey Badger in order to help them catch those connected to the illegal weapons trade. With her quick wit and an assigned agent bodyguard named Kolby, she just might survive being the Honey Badger. Unfortunately, there are no self-help books on how to become the worst human being on the planet...