A fire at an upscale mountain resort area outside of Colorado Springs, leads ATF's Sam Tanner and DEA's Mike Reach on an investigation into the world of Mexican drug cartels, Chicago crack houses and murder. Follow Tanner and Reach and their investigative team as they work to unravel the grand conspiracy being orchestrated by rouge Army combat vets and their former street gang brethren. Straw Men is the second in a series, following Rocky Mountain High, in which Tanner and his ATF and DEA colleagues work to infiltrate a tightknit unit of gang members, narcotics traffickers and the "good citizens" who supply them with guns.