A serial rapist is using a Buffalo online-dating website as his hunting ground. The police are stumped, but Ainsley and Samantha can't let it stand. With Jake in DC, they drag Cash into their plot to lure out the rapist and take him down.
While Ainsley fears Jake is being subjected to an American version of the Soviet Show Trial before he's railroaded into some super-secret work camp, Jake survives the governmental slog and flog.
With Jake back, Ainsley, the investigative reporter, seeks his counsel and realizes she may have bitten off more than she can chew. She will never get the rapist if she fails to understand how he's actually doing it. It's why the police have nothing but dead-end leads.
Meanwhile, not everyone from Jake's past is happy he's escaped the bureaucracy alive.
They entangle him in a web of underworld criminality and a spree of murders meant to destroy Jake once and for all. If he chooses not to play their game, he and his friends will be slaughtered by an army of black ops. No carrots, only sticks.
The only way out alive is to solve the perfect crime and then take down the underworld mastermind behind it.
If Jake can't resist, he will become the Devil's Charm.