Nick Sibelius' latest client, Dillon, appears to be the victim of a grudge between competitive bass fishermen. When suspects start dying at the hands of a serial killer known as the Musikillogist, he discovers Dillon has stumbled into a plot with national ramifications. Hoping to pass the case to the Texas Rangers, he is instead recruited to head the Governor's special task force. He learns the Governor's major campaign contributor and secret lover, Bruce Reynolds, has a plan to secede from the Union, resurrecting the Republic of Texas. Faced with Reynolds' serial killer hit woman and a remotely controlled drone air force, Nick makes a desperate attempt to prevent civil war, the destruction of the Governor's political career, and his client's unnatural demise. Secessionists, drones, and serial killers: nowhere else but Texas.