A supertanker is sabotaged sixty miles off the Texas cost, spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. Moments before the explosion, the captain of the ship receives a cryptic text message that simply says, "THE FUTURE IS NOW "
FBI Special Agents Pete Cortez and Teri Barnhart are assigned the task of finding the perpetrators and stopping them before they can strike again. Their job is made more difficult by a seemingly well-placed leak within the Bureau's Houston office that enables the terrorists to stay one step ahead of the investigation as they attempt to navigate through the murky and cutthroat world of oil, politics and environmentalism.
As the time inches ever closer to their promised next attack, Cortez and Barnhart scramble to unravel the mystery of who sabotaged the supertanker, why they put the marine habitat of the entire Gulf Coast at risk to do it, and why they'd kill to keep their secret hidden?