The Higgins Foundation hosts a popular and controversial political pundit who plans to conduct his interview of a state Senator candidate on the neutral ground of the Robin's Nest. The pundit's interview is thrown into jeopardy when photos are sent threatening to blackmail the pundit off the airwaves, photos that involve a woman Cleo Wright saved from the streets.

After Bryant Calvin suffers a crash during the Higgins Foundation electric car time trials, Lily Magnum pushes her father to relinquish his cherished, red Ferrari for the sake of the trial. But the event Lily hopes will promote alternative fuel choices itself is put in jeopardy when the race track's owners suffer a string of misfortune that threatens to close the track down...

The attack on Delaram Sahar at the airport leaves little doubt that Dalton Booker's nemesis, the Mongoose, has followed Delaram from Afghanistan to Hawaii. Dalton has come closer than anyone ever has to tracking down the Mongoose, but he still has no idea of the Mongoose's face, or even a name...

Thomas Magnum, retired Naval Intelligence officer and current proprietor and archivist of the Robin's Nest Writer's Retreat, prepares the estate to host the first annual Higgins Foundation Literary Symposium. A new character arrives at the estate to help deal with threats to the symposium's keynote speaker, a human and women's right advocate whose words have inspired enemies...