After six years of overseas duty for Diplomatic Security Sam Tanner was tired of chasing South American terrorist and keeping dignitaries.from being assisnated. His transfer to the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives immediately dropped him knee deep into the violent underworld of the american gun and drug culture. A routine government form and the arrest of a bright but recidivist gun and drug dealer by local authorities led him into an undercover role in Colorado Springs where he and his fellow agents uncovered one of the Wests largest meth and gun operations flourishing under the control of a tough female veteran of the Mexican drug wars.