Michael Grail had to prove that he was not a traitor. One day Grail was drving to Mexico, convinced that he was the luckiest man alive. Healthy, solvent, in love qith his beautiful wife Dory, he had not a problem in the world. He would never feel that way again. For suddenly, it was all changed. He became the victim of a mysterious abduction... and the beneficiary of an equally mysterious rescue. Then he had his first session with our government security agents and their inexplicable questions. The search for the answers would send Grail on a strange and terrible mission to a place few men visited. Here, without allies, he would be pitted against devious enemies, knowing that his nation's needs were far more important than his own survival.