The novel is a fictional legal thriller and courtroom drama about a naturalized United States citizen who finds himself thrown into Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp as a suspected terrorist.

Ahmed Khury, an accountant in California, falls under suspicion due to his association with his brother Sabeen, who is suspected of laundering money back in Iraq.

[1] Eade was inspired to write a fictional story which exposes the government's restriction of Constitutionally guaranteed rights in the name of the War on Terror, by both the enactment of the USA PATRIOT ACT and the use of Guantanamo Bay detention camp as an offshore prison.

"[4][non-primary source needed] InD'tale Magazine said, "Mr. Eade takes a truly realistic look into the atrocities that occurred at Guantanamo Bay in the act of patriotism and protecting the freedom of Americans.

As Eade deftly juxtaposes the lives of two very different Americans experiencing two very different circumstances, he delves into the politics and processes of prisoners and military men alike, exposing the wounds of their experience and psyches and the points at which man's inhumanity stems from a worldview that dehumanizes and rips apart systems and people.