After a Halloween ball for the ages, the world awakens to discover that, somehow, a large portion of global oil production has been knocked off-line. As energy prices begin their meteoric rise, promising untold riches to those who can still pump, a search begins for those responsible. The only problem? Despite thousands of ruined oil rigs from Venezuela to Dubai, there exists no evidence of the culprit. As global attention focuses on the boom-and-bust oil capital of Midland, Texas, a witch hunt begins for who could have pulled off the hack of the century...and some take the term "hunt" more literally than others.