The story opens with a mass shooting incident at the Atlanta Tech
Corridor. Retired FBI agent Larry Watson who has just arrived at the
scene for a job interview springs into the action.
The story weaves the lives of three men: Dave Pruitt, a high functioning
Asperger's who is obsessed with guns; Alim Mubarak, an Iraqi immigrant
who worked to be the example to which Southern Republicans could point
as one of the good ones; Mark McCarthy, a young CEO who started Maverick
Investments to fulfill his father's prophecy.
The recurrent mass shootings in America, the spread of radical Islam and
the attempts within the community to transcend hate and violence,
discriminations in the society and the reactions they can evoke form the
backdrop. The story alternates between the mass shooting incident and
the lives of the three potential suspects on the journey towards the
climax.