Covert spy Michael Westen has found himself in forced seclusion in Miami - and is a little paranoid. Watched by the FBI, cut off from intelligence contacts and with his assets frozen, Westen is on ice with a warning: stay there or get disappeared'. Driven to find out who burned him and why, he's biding his time helping people with nowhere else to turn - people like socialite Cricket O'Connor whose husband has vanished, along with her fortune...'