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All Klug wants is to find a normal, peaceful life again where he can leave the war behind. The Army discharges Klug without honors, despite his collection of valorous citations. He returns home. In need of a job, he relies on Uncle Fred as one of his only remaining family. Uncle Fred built Empire Trucking, hauling goods between L.A. and Vegas. Eager to retire, Fred passes his legitimate trucking company to Klug. The dark and dubious, Agent or Contractor, Bob McFarlane informs Klug that his uncle may be trafficking drugs on the side and that a gang of thugs may be his suppliers. McFarlane’s boss makes it clear that Klug is expendable because many powerful elitists don’t want Klug to turn into a whistle-blower. Klug unearthed too much classified information, including detailed evidence about the 9/11 catastrophe. Unaware that Fred disappeared, Klug takes a bus with 12 other passengers. He plans to meet up with Fred. Just as Klug begins an enchanting discussion with Sheila, a drug gang hijacks the bus in the Mojave Desert, looking for money from a drug deal gone bad. McFarlane offers a hundred grand to have the contractors to kill Klug. Klug learns about this plan only after the gangsters hijack a Los Angeles airport complimentary shuttle bus charted for Vegas. Klug struggles to protect the 12 passengers. In order to survive the gangsters and the power brokers, Klug has to bend his own ethics, getting his hands dirty in the darkness. He isn't sure why powerful people are pursuing him, but he can only guess that they are afraid that he knows far too information and details. Fear might trump the truth.