The Prime Minister and the Home Secretary are scared, very scared. Terrorists, riots, and the plague that's sweeping the country are not the problem—but rather, documents kept by a biochemist that implicate the Government in a grave crime. Now the biochemist is missing as well as his wife and child. Government agent Samantha Quest is searching for them, and soon she is numbered among the watched and the hunted. A trail of death follows, and if Quest can find the missing family, will she be able to protect them from powerful men who will stop at nothing to conceal their crimes?