When FBI Agent Pete Dobbins is assigned to investigate three murders, in three different cities, connected by ballistics evidence, he discovers a conspiracy of criminal activity that requires him to go undercover in an organization that is believed to be beyond reproach. Dobbins a former minor league baseball star discovers that all of the murders have occurred while the Arizona Sidewinders were in those cities. He determines that he must go undercover, as himself, attempting a baseball comeback. The stakes are raised when the main suspect exploits Dobbins vulnerability. His lovely and irreverent wife Trish, is in the late stages of a difficult pregnancy. Along the way, Dobbins discovers a defense lawyer with a shocking secret, fights for his life with a hired assassin, collaborates with a beautiful US Attorney, tries to help a wrongly convicted man win his freedom and improvises a variety of solutions to heart pounding situations that could blow up his investigation and destroy everything he holds precious.
