Nationally renowned broadcaster Billy McKinnon's life has hit the skids-his wife has left him, a demented American "patriot" wants to kill him, and the president of the United States wants him off the air. Abandoning his previously comfortable New York life, he accepts a new job three thousand miles away in San Francisco.

Shortly after arriving, with the aid of SFPD sergeant, Frank Grecco, the two unearth a bogus sex scandal alleged between the San Francisco mayor's daughter and the independent San Francisco board president. After uncovering dark money payments from the president's own super PAC to the San Francisco board president's husband's account, Billy McKinnon finds himself, his broadcast team, and his family in the crosshairs of both the president and a man set on enacting his own brand of violent justice.