A suburban printer is killed in a car bomb attack. Is this the work of Muslim extremists? Or is it a criminal act? As Detective Zane Malik of Major Crime links up with National Security to search for the truth, the news of the bomb hits the media, and there is fallout in the community.

Detective Zane Malik is deep undercover, and in danger. Can he can link arms dealer, Akmal, with the car bomb murder of an NSO agent? Agent Skerritt thinks he can. When Akmal’s girlfriend, a Russian prostitute, is killed, Akmal orders a hit on the man who killed her, a sleazy sex trafficker. And he wants Malik to do it.

An ambulance officer is stabbed to death by a kid in an Ice induced rage. When Detective Sonny Koa delivers the death knock, he bonds with the dead man’s Maori family. Sometimes in a detective’s work, the break comes from left field. In investigating the Ice racket, the detectives find a link to the stolen arms that killed the NSO agent in a car bomb. But can Malik convince his imprisoned target, Akmal, to help?

Akmal is killed in prison. Malik is determined to find out the truth behind his murder and the murder of NSO agent. Going to Canberra with the widow of the NSO agent leads Malik to an old foe. But his absence causes problems when the squad investigate a mysterious crossbow killing. Inspector Wright juggles professional and personal problems, as her own brother is the target of a intended hit.

The shooting of Inspector Patricia Wright’s brother unites the team at Major Crime. Can they bring the killers to justice? While the detectives gather together to help their boss, a respected transplant surgeon is murdered. Malik’s wife, fed up with his obsession with work, leaves with their children.

Major Crime and NSO unite once again as a terror attack looms as a real possibility. Detective Zane Malik uses everything in his power to discover the conspirators and in doing so finally finds out why Agent Angleton was killed.