Will Conlan is an unconventional thinker. After winning a baseball game with an innovative toss of a rosin bag, he catches the interest of a chief operative of the Homeland Security s Analytic Red Cell. Employing the creative problem solving of philosophers, futurists, and Hollywood movie writers, this intelligence unit is seeking any original ideas about anticipating terrorist plots.
As a recent surge of terrorist activity undermines these fresh insights, the operative banks on the notion that Will s youthful imagination, unclouded by the premise of it can t be done, may provide the key insight they need and seeks to secretly exploit Will s unhindered out of the box thinking.
Unaware of the magnitude of danger surrounding him, Will uncovers something he wasn t supposed to discover a connection between a television advertisement and a master terrorist plot. Narrowly surviving, he alone foils a bombing at Wrigley Field. Uncertain about the knowledge he now holds, he has to figure out the terrorists next target. Will just doesn t realize it s him.