After a Turkish Colonel assigned to NATO is found dead in a Navy Ensign's apartment, Rabb is assigned to investigate. Everything points to the Ensign as having been the object of harassment by the Colonel, but then not all is as it seems. Can Rabb find the truth behind the Colonel's passing? And even if he does, will it even lead to a prosecutable case? Rabb soon leans the truth is even stranger than even he thinks.
After being diagnosed with night blindness, Lt. Cmdr. Harmon Rabb, an F-14 Tomcat fighter pilot, is forced to change careers. Cmdr. Rabb chooses to join the Navy's Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps. There he both defends and sometimes prosecutes Navy and Marine Corps defendants. He is sometimes assisted by fellow lawyer, Lt. Sarah "Mac" MacKenzie, and his other fellow JAG staff.
Many of Rabb's cases require him to both keep up his F-14 qualifications and travel the world, in order to bring justice to the cases he is trying.
Rabb must also deal with the fact that his father, also a former Navy pilot, never returned home after being held prisoner after he was shot down in North Vietnam. Rabb believing his father is still alive continues the search he has pursued to find his father, since his teens.