New Orleans disc jockey Chris Vance lived a lonely, uneventful life, until the night he overhears the murder of an FBI agent on a police scanner modified to intercept cellular phone calls. Now he’s the only witness to a plot by a shadowy South American drug lord to assassinate the President of the United States, and a target of the conspirators. With the help of a beautiful television photographer named Diane Hebert, Chris must try to unravel the mystery, and stay alive long enough to stop it.