Jeff Sams finds his investigative skills are to be put to the ultimate test due to his own father being murdered. By coincidence, his commitment to find the one responsible teams him up with a friend working for the CIA who elicits his help in a national security breech against the United States. As the plot thickens, it unfolds into an international involvement as well as a connection to his father's murder. The similar interest of both friends leads them down a parallel and dangerous path, which for Jeff culminates in a troubling and surprising conclusion.