US Army CID Special Agent Warrant Officer 2 Winters is brought into a Tampa Police investigation of an old skeleton at a construction site when an Army commemorative ring from the 1st Gulf War is discovered with the body. Winters' team follows the evidence to discover the victim was a reservist with the North Carolina National Guard attached to a US Corps of Engineers district in Jacksonville, Florida.The case leads Winters team to a newly promoted general with the Corps serving in Japan and a further crimes more extensive then they could have imagined.Throughout, Winters must balance the needs of the investigation with his falling out with the prosecutor over a murder investigation and court martial in Tamp, the hidden agenda by his new boss at Fort Benning to have him replaced and a serious turn for the worse in his relationship with his wife and her demanding mother.