Outcries over failures of intelligence and investigative agencies following 9/11 trigger demands for reform. Former FBI Assistant Director Ted Bridger, whose earlier warnings of terrorist threats fell on deaf ears, answers the call and creates a new unit: FISTaFederal Investigative and Strategic Team. FIST consists of elite agents from FBI, CIA, Secret Service, DIA, and NSA. Using sophisticated investigative techniques and weaponry, the new unit pursues terrorists from New York to Seattle and into mountain forests of the Ozarks and Idaho. Pressure to succeed combines with intrigue and action, placing men and women of FIST in deadly peril. Release for the agents comes in many formsaincluding passionate and forbidden romance.