A petty thief is gunned down in an alley and a Congressman's assistant
falls in front of a subway - two seemingly unrelated deaths. But not to
wisecracking, brash newspaper reporter Cal McAffrey who spies a
conspiracy waiting to be uncovered. With a turbulent past connected to
the Congressman and the aid of ambitious young rookie writer Della
Frye, Cal begins uprooting clues that lead him to a corporate
cover-up...