While traveling through Europe, Joe is approached by a Russian intelligence officer who offers to reveal the identity of a mole within the CIA in exchange for protection. Joe reluctantly realizes that he can no longer escape from his past and returns to Virginia.
Young CIA analyst Joe Turner, whose idealism is tested when he stumbles onto a terrible but brilliant plan that threatens the lives of millions. Turner is an idealistic millennial who secretly joins the CIA hoping to reform it from within. But when everyone in his office is massacred by professional huggers, this brilliant analyst is forced out of his ivory tower think tank and into battle with the most dangerous elements in the military-industrial complex. If he is to have any chance of surviving, Joe will have to do things he never imagined himself capable of - and discover that no one knows their true character until they've been tested under fire.