When Jason Harper's doorbell rings late at night, he can scarcely believe who is standing on his porch: Roy, his elder brother, who three decades earlier went to Vietnam as a pilot and never returned, presumed 'missing in action'.
Where has he been? Why hasn't he contacted them? When Roy is insistent that no one should know he is there, Jason suspects that something strange is going on. And then two further visitors arrive - the sort who don't bother to knock - and his worst possible fears are realised . . .
Jason may be a successful local newspaper editor, but nothing can prepare him for the astonishing story his brother reveals. It is a scandal as explosive as Watergate, and one that powerful and sinister forces will stop at nothing to keep secret. Jason soon realises that by helping Roy he is putting his own life in terrible danger, but after all these years he can't let his brother down . . .
