After an early on morning machinegun attack with a madman called the Digger leaves dozens dead in the Washington, D.C., subway, the mayor’s office receives a note demanding twenty million dollars by midnight or more innocents will expire. It really is New Year’s Eve, and with the ransom notice as the just evidence, Particular Agent Margaret Lukas calls upon retired FBI agent and the nation’s leading record examiner Parker Kincaid to join the manhunt for the Digger-or for hundreds, the 1st moments of the brand new year will become their last on earth.