Two lifelong friends in Philadelphia pose as DEA agents to rob small-time drug dealers. It's a perfect grift—until they choose the wrong mark and become targets of a massive narcotics enterprise.

A young campaign aide gets in way over his head when he sleeps with the wife of a presidential candidate, sending him into a downward spiral of corruption and blackmail.

As a new world government emerges from the mysterious disappearances of people worldwide, a band of resisters known as the Remnant live and die to protect a valuable asset that will bring hope to those surviving the catastrophic scenario.