Sean King, a former Secret Service agent turned private detective, agrees to investigate the murder of a scientist just inside the grounds of a secret CIA facility in Virginia, while his partner Michelle Maxwell receives treatment for an apparent death wish at a nearby psychiatric facility, and it is not long before they both make discoveries that place their lives in danger.

Melvin Mars awaits his fate on Death Row. He was one of America's most promising football stars until, aged twenty-years-old, he was arrested and convicted for the murder of his parents just as he was due to begin a very lucrative contract with the NFL. When Amos Decker, newly appointed special agent with the FBI, hears the news that Melvin was saved in the final seconds before his execution because someone has confessed to the killings, he persuades...

FBI agent Gabriel Dean rushes into action to protect his pregnant wife, homicide detective Jane Rizzoli, when she is taken hostage along with others at the hospital by Nicholas Tennant, a black-ops agent in possession of high-level government secrets.