When a bedraggled stranger turned up on the doorstep of Jason Harper's comfortable New England home, it takes him some time to accept that it is his brother who had disappeared over thirty years before on a bombing mission over Vietnam. Why had he not come home earlier? Where had he been? Why had he not told his own family that he had survived? Before Roy can begin to explain what he has gone through they are interrupted by a pair of men who seem intent on removing them both - and Jason's wife and child. Within the space of half an hour Jason's well-regulated, ordinary life is destroyed and his loyalty to his lost brother forces him to take his family on the run as he battles with the fact that the American government had 'hidden' hundreds of MIAs. Now the two brothers have the knowledge to expose this outrage, but first they have to prevent the other survivors from being summarily executed, and a very professional organisation is determined that they will achieve neither aim.