New York DA Roger Butch Karp, recovering from an assassination attempt that came within a few millimetres of killing him, takes on a shadowy cartel that uses terrorists to further their criminal empire and slide under fascist day to day control. Even as Karp struggles to uncover those responsible for the planning of terrorist murders of sixty school children he goes to the aid of the younger brother of his college roommate who has been unfailing, yet without due process, suspended from his position as baseball coach at the university of Idaho.