Colonel John Moore's stellar thirty year career in the Army ends without distinction. His dream of retiring as a Brigadier General is dismantled due to many flaws in his character that cultivate in his demise. Assigned to manage the cataloging of money for the newly found wealth of the emerging democratic nation of Iraq after the rule of Saddam Hussein, his career disintegrates even faster because of greed, resentment and he feels it's payback for being denied his star. Moore orchestrates a plan to steal eleven million dollars and ship it to the United States. He carefully develops the talents of a young and beautiful First Lieutenant Marilyn Porter, whose starvation for companionship, lust for men and her inhibited bisexuality allows her to be drawn into his plan. He blackmails Sergeant Major Henry (Hank) Jarvis, a closeted homosexual, into being the second member of his group. He solicits trained killer and Special Forces Staff Sergeant Sean Quinn, whose greed for wealth and distain for authority made him a logical choice to be the third member. And then there was the fourth and final member, Captain Todd Wilson. Wilson refuses to cooperate and threatens to reveal Moore's plan to the U.S. Army and Treasury Department. Moore has no choice but to have Wilson killed. The killing finalizes Moore's plan and he uses Wilson's coffin for shipment of the stolen money back to the United States. The plan is executed to perfection to steal the largest amount of cash only known to four individuals in the history of crime. Moore and his group are eventually honorably discharged from the U. S. Army. He arranges for the group's civilian employment at the Colony Bank of Frederick, Maryland, to begin the plot to retrieve the money that had been buried in the coffin of Captain Todd Wilson just outside the city in the rural farmland. The Wilson family and Frederick community have had closure knowing they have honorably interned Wilson next to his relatives in the family cemetery on the Wilson farm property. But only known to the four members of the group, Captain Wilson lies dishonorably interned in an unmarked grave on the outer edges of Baghdad. Retrieval of the money in the coffin becomes complicated as the relatives of the Wilson family try to save the farm from the foreclosure, never suspecting the underlying tactics the elite new members of the Colony Bank would initiate to get to the money in the coffin. Soon, the group's distrust for each other fuel many twists and turns in their strategy to recover the cash. Some people have to be eliminated from the Wilson family. Some have to be eliminated from the elite group of thieves. Only one person will live to know the whole story.
