Behind Harry Strand is a career in American intelligence he wishes he could forget, and a wife, killed in a car accident, he can't stop mourning. In spite of his past, Harry has managed to start a new career as a successful art dealer. Then Mara Song enters his life with a business proposition - to sell her extraordinary portfolio of drawings by modern masters. The allure of the cache and of Mara herself is something he can't resist. Even after the discovery.
Walking into Mara's home one day, he finds someone has left a video cassette primed to play. When he starts it he finds himself watching a night surveillance of a chase scene and, with heart-wrenching horror, witnessing his wife's final, terrifying moments as her car is forced off a country road. He now knows only too well who is responsible for her death - all he has to do is find him.
