For sex-crimes detective Livia Lone, a position with a government antitrafficking task force is a chance to return to Thailand to ferret out Rithisak Sorm, the kingpin behind her own childhood ordeal. What she doesn't know is that in threatening Sorm, she's also threatening a far-reaching conspiracy involving the highest levels of America's own intelligence apparatus. It turns out that killing Sorm just might be the easy part. The real challenge will be payback from his protectors.