 In Judgement County, Texas, a rookie cop gets the ultimate test when an APB for a child killer fits the general description of a man he stops for speeding. By day s end, his boss, the sheriff, is out of reach, a power outage blocks him from checking the suspect s identity or getting a better description of the wanted man, and the town has become a mob set on vengeance. Race complicates things slightly (the suspect is Black, the cop and most townsfolk are White), as does the brotherhood of war (one s a Vietnam vet, the other Desert Storm). Our rookie is used to applying his boss s pithy sayings to situations he s in, but in this case, he may need to make his own judgment.