When journalist Tom Stewart and his seventeen-year-old daughter Fiona arrive in the South of France, he's hoping that a holiday together will mend some fences. Over the years, his dogged pursuit of a story as brought him success, but it hasn't helped their relationship. Now he's on the point of losing her for good.
So when Fee vanishes, together with a teenage American boy, Stewart blames himself - if only he hadn't let her go off and cool down alone after a row. And what if her disappearance is connected to the book he is writing about MIAs - soldiers who went missing in Vietnam and could still be alive? A book whose final chapter will contain a devastating revelation.
When the French police get nowhere, Tom must use all his investigative skills to find his daughter before it's too late. But as the pieces fall into place, he begins to uncover a brilliant plan so chillingly designed that only an obsessive genius could have conceived it.