Young FBI agent Peter Sutherland discovers a subway bomb, prevents a major tragedy, and becomes a national hero. However, shadowed by his father\'s dark past, he is denied a promotion and instead assigned the tedious job of a \"Night Agent.\" His duties require him to sit for hours in the White House basement, monitoring a highly classified emergency hotline for undercover intelligence officers—a phone that almost never rings.
That all changes one night when Peter finally answers a call, instantly plunging him into a high-stakes espionage drama and a tense investigation to uncover a massive, far-reaching political conspiracy.