Powerful and corrupt politicians create havoc for Matt Kinler, a former FBI agent turned private eye. The wealthy matriarch of an Oregon timber family hires him to find who killed her son and why. Matt jumps at the chance, but runs smack into a wall of complications. Not everyone wants the truth revealed. Someone wants Matt stopped. Who? He must fight power-hungry, double-dealing political figures who grab control of the murder investigation, hobble Matt's friends in law enforcement and try to silence him and anyone with loose lips. Matt must rely on his wife, Anna, and his business partner, Allen Mann, as he cobbles together a team from his network of friends to take on corruption and capture a killer. While Matt avoids being muzzled, he discovers murder is not all the corrupt politicians have to hide. In this suspenseful and fast-paced mystery, Matt must bend the rules to identify a murderer and stop a disaster planned by domestic terrorists.