The director of the FBI is dead. Officially it's being called suicide; unofficially, it's a murder. On the first morning of his retirement as head of the FBI's Behavioural Science Profiling Unit, Jake Donovan is summoned back to Quantico - and into the most dangerous, volatile and politically charged case of his career.
After suffering a brutal attack from assailants who may have been linked to the director's death, Jake enlists an elite team of "broken wings" - damaged-goods agents like himself who have been frozen out of the FBI. Equipped with a state of the art airplane that serves as a mobile lab and headquarters, this secretly funded rogue squad of expert mindhunters is going to do what the Bureau can't or won't: follow the trail of evidence, no matter where it leads, no matter whom it implicates.