The Cains have suffered the death of one daughter, and now the other has vanished.
Twelve-year-old Jessica Cain is missing in the Middle East. Borders crossed, doors locked, narrow alleys, barren deserts. No one knows where she is. What begins as a vacation trip with her father has become a terrifying ordeal with terrorists.
John Cain feels helpless and full of guilt. He left her there. Now he must find her, but how? What is happening to his family? Why has life become so grim? Are they in the crosshairs of unknown powers?
Meanwhile, terrorists take aim at the children of the world.