Timothy Runn, a marketing agent, stumbles across a dying FBI agent who has a reinforced briefcase. The agent implores him to return it to the FBI headquarters in Washington. Left alone with the briefcase, Timothy is chased by unknown assailants who also seek the case and the power it holds inside. Timothy soon runs into a young woman telling him she is another agent, and Tim learns about the case and its true capabilities.As he works to return the case, he runs into various people who help or hinder him - a comedian, a burglar, an FBI agent and others. Traveling across America, he will have to decide to whom he will trust this mission.A chase story set in the midlands of America and winding across its byways, The Briefcase is an action novel about the relationships forming between a group of strangers forced together by their situation. These strangers must grow to know and trust each other with secrets on which the security of their nation - and their own safety - depends.