Trumble is a quiet, minimum-security federal prison in Florida, home to three disgraced former judges who call themselves "the Brethren." From behind bars, they run a lucrative mail scam, extorting closeted gay men with carefully crafted blackmail letters. But their scheme takes a dangerous turn when one of their targets proves to be no ordinary victim—he is a presidential candidate secretly groomed by the CIA. Director Teddy Maynard, determined to engineer the election's outcome, will stop at nothing to silence them. As the Brethren dig deeper, they find themselves entangled in a deadly conspiracy against the world's most powerful intelligence agency.