Con artists Kidd and Luellen target the small town of Longstreet, Mississippi, at the request of an African American rights activist, to get the mayor to resign, and their plan seems perfect until murder, scandal, and love get in the way.
California detective Frank Bishop, a cop used to more straightforward homicide cases, teams up with Wyatt Gillette, a convicted computer hacker, to stop a ruthless killer who uses hacking as a tool to invade--and end--Silicon Valley residents' lives, one by one.