After orchestrating a string of daring train raids, Confederate scout Drouet Broussard is inducted into a secretive group only known as the Knights of the Golden Circle.

Shrouded in a world of agents and assassins, Broussard is soon assigned the ultimate mission: assassinating the President of the United States.

But as dubious motives surface and the league begins to unravel, can he engineer an escape from the deadly secret society?