Military intelligence colleagues summon attorney Craig Malcault to testify against his client, a sensual, provocative socialite with a suspect divorce case. But he decides to destroy her file and risk all he's got to guard her secret. Craig was chasing informants a decade ago when his client built an international conglomerate and founded Ara Pacis, the code-named territory in Latin America, with the two men in her life as protection against threatening extermination. The bloodcurdling discoveries Craig now makes about her case are a human rights attorney's stellar dream come true.

That dream quickly becomes a nightmare when Craig learns what life is like, imperiled on government watchlists with unauthorized identities. Craig's client grapples with illusory confessions from the men she propelled to success. She needs a payback mechanism to even the scores of their embattled lives. It is always an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth on the ground where spies and mercenaries make their fortunes, and Craig knows it all so well, unlike management in Washington, D.C.

Management brutally uses the client's lover, George, secretly a double agent, as its tool, its sole goal to destroy Ara Pacis for its military intelligence work.