John Cesari's former lover, Kelly, and her children have gone missing and her husband is found dead in an underground garage. When law enforcement fails to act, Cesari launches his own investigation. He discovers their disappearance is linked to a shady company in Manhattan called EverBeat selling defective pacemakers to hospitals. EverBeat has ties to both the Chinese military complex in Beijing and to the United States government. Trying to unravel the web of deceit one lie at a time leads to a trail of corpses throughout the city that never sleeps. Hunted by professional killers and thwarted by personal betrayal, his only goal is to save Kelly and her family.