At secretive military electronics surveillance station in the Arctic Circle, a lowly fry cook, paradoxically the son of a wealthy and powerful politician, mysteriously dies.  A victim of circumstances, FBI agent, Rhett Bradley, in the last month of his career, is hastily dispatched to investigate, to arrive ahead of a Siberian-spawned blizzard and a feared Washington, D.C. political storm.

     Bradley must maneuver through guarded, secretive, and complex circumstances, periling his own life while contending with an egotistical FBI supervisor, paranoid intelligence agents, and petty criminals.  His investigation must be conducted in an alien world of complex electronics systems, rigid security, restricted access, withheld information, contesting legal authorities, and contested law enforcement jurisdictions.

     Bradley finds the most devious and distrustful of those surrounding the case are ranking bureaucrats and politicians of his own government and his DOJ chain of command.