Out of the blue, Ex-CIA agent Kat McWilliams receives news that DNA from her kidnapped child has turned up at the murder scene of a high-valued government informant — 16 years after the girl disappeared. Astounded by the news, Kat’s joy is short-lived. She soon learns that her daughter is being sought as one of the suspects in the slaying. Leveraging former government contacts, Kat shadows investigators as they chase an aging headhunter and his teenage accomplices from East Africa to Los Angeles While the assassins plan another brazen attack on a high-profile figure, Kat stumbles upon a dark Website tied to the murdered informant. She is stunned by what she finds there. But whom in the US government could she trust to act on this information? As investigators work to dismantle the crime ring, Kat devises a risky gambit to save her daughter’s life.