As an Outsider cop, Shelby Darnell finds solving murder cases can be nearly impossible when Insiders, like Detective Barton Sledge, treat you like dirt, grabbing your evidence and claiming your crime scene. As if that weren’t enough, an Outsider bureaucrat, Cecil Spending, assigns a Personal Monitor, Mel Morgan, to dog your every step in hopes of getting you fired. But what Spending doesn’t know is that Mel, a fresh-out-of-college woman, has her own ideas about how to monitor Shelby. To aid in his struggle with Sledge, Shelby finds a unique Insider detective, Efron Schmidt — a frenetic, hyperactive cop with his own job in jeopardy — who becomes an instant ally. Together, Shelby, Mel, and Efron frantically search for the chief murder suspect as the bodies pile up and individual killings turn into mass murder with nerve gas and a horrific attack at the opening concert in the world’s first anti-gravity theater.