Introducing Chief Warrant Officer 2 Mark Winters of the US Army Criminal Investigation Command (CID) in Lakeland Florida.
Murder and special operations go hand in hand when Winters is called in by the Tampa Police Homicide Squad to assist in the investigation of the brutal murder of two individuals, one an army officer and the second an unknown who has been fiendishly tortured.
To unravel the mystery, Winters investigation takes him from Florida to Kentucky to Austria and finally Canada and has him facing two different and dangerous foes.
The story unfolds in the background of Phil Sambrook's promotion to the rank of general and command of the US Special Operations Command Central and ODA 053's participation in Operation MEDUSA in Afghanistan.