When three college students hiking in the Appalachians mysteriously vanish, the FBI is called in to investigate.Finding no immediate leads and no indications of a criminal act, the authorities at the Bureau put the case on the back burner.But the father of one of the missing-Edwin Kriess-isn't willing to just let it drop.Kriess is a retired FBI agent, who was also a former member of an elite CIA task force expertly trained in the art of hunting down and retrieving rogue agents.His career burned down after a mission to uncover a Chinese espionage plot resulted in a blood-bath involving civilians. Kriess was quietly sacrificed to extinguish the scandal, and has since lived in semi-exile down in southwestern Virginia.Now he's back in action - if very unofficially - and will do anything in his power to find his daughter.