What does the Super Bowl have to do with East Tennessee?

Jake Bender returns, having retired as a Nashville homicide detective to his hometown of Jonesborough, where he sets up shop as a private investigator, and the owner of a small golf course on his old family farm. His ex-wife remains in Nashville, where she is now the Governor of Tennessee; their relationship remains complicated.

The FBI comes calling, asking for Jake’s help on an investigation looking for a former high school teammate who has recently escaped from prison. It turns out that he is one of two former Tennessee Vol football players who are suspected of trying to fix the Super Bowl some twenty some years before. The other is now Tennessee’s highly successful football coach. The problem is, everyone who was involved is starting to turn up murdered.