Mark Pacer opens the elevator door to begin his midnight shift at the U.S. State Department operations center and discovers the victim of an attempted murder. Mark, a young U.S. diplomat in Washington in the year 1983 after several tours abroad, saves the man?s life.The man is a crusty ambassador, Hank Lowell, the father of one of Mark?s classmates when Mark began diplomatic training. Hank?s son later resigned and disappeared.Who is attacking diplomats...