When private security consultant Jake Adams is hired by a Portland, Oregon technology company to find one of its missing employees in Germany, Jake figures it will be an easy job. Fly to Germany, find the man shacking up with some fraulein, and report back his findings. But nothing is easy for Adams, a former CIA and Air Force intelligence officer. He quickly stumbles into a case of international corporate espionage, murder, conspiracy and a mystery that pits him against some of his most brutal foes from his intelligence days; from an aircraft carrier off the coast of Italy to the German Rhine. Can his tenacity save him from ruthless agents?