Eminent scientist Dr Ralph Padley is dying - and he knows its time to finally tell the truth. Padley has a dark secret which if it got out would have deadly consequences. But there are powerful men who will stop at nothing to silence him. FBI Special Agent Reilly has an agenda of his own. For months he has sought the man who kidnapped and brainwashed his five-year-old son. But that man is a ghost - a highly protected CIA official with no name and no identity and who may have links to Reillys own father. Watched manipulated and framed for crimes he didnt commit Reilly becomes a fugitive making it next to impossible for him to uncover the truth about his past while protecting the family he loves. Hes left with no choice but to risk everything to unearth secrets that would shake the country to its core - if hes ever allowed to get that far.