Even after his time in the Army, trouble seems to follow Bobby McRae. A decorated soldier who served as part of an undercover diplomatic unit, McRae comes home and unexpectedly ends up in Hollywood as an executive at a film and television studio. The allure of Tinseltown quickly fades, and McRae moves to a rustic cabin outside Charleston, South Carolina to live the life of a Southern country gentleman.

But when a former LA business associate arrives on McRae's doorstep—quite uninvited and very dead—he has to call on all of his skills to find out who's behind the murder and why. What McRae begins to uncover, however, is much bigger. An attempt on his life, a fugitive terrorist and Hollywood celebrities all complicate McRae's simple country life and call him back into action to conduct his dangerous, rogue investigation.