Retired Colonel Ray Longknife and Marine Captain Terrence 'Trouble' Tordon come to Savannah via different routes, but what they find is the same. One bully strongman is intent on keeping power no matter what the new rules are for peace. He's got the population cowered by thugs, and tanks at the ready. He expects to win the coming elections handily. He doesn't expect trouble. Or, in this case, Mrs Trouble, a.k.a Ruth Tordon, a Marine wife on a mission to find the drug lords that almost killed her and her husband. She's out to put them out of business and she won't be stopped.