Andrew Ball returns in this dramatic story of the search for British children missing for more than forty years. While Ball struggles to make sense of new evidence that they were taken to the Soviet Union, Anton Adamovich is ruthlessly dealing with skeletons in the closet as he vies to become Russia's next president. In New York, psychologist Miles Wallace disappears after boasting about the experimental work he'd done for the Politburo when he was a young professor in Minsk. Chief Prosecutor Evgeny Shubin is proud of the work he's done to bring law and order to the Odessa region of Ukraine. But when Adamovich choses someone else to be prime minister of the newly formed independent republic, he wants revenge on his old university friend.