One June evening in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale, a minibus belonging to a group home for handicapped adults disappears. Acting Chief of Detectives Martin Preuss organizes the search for the van along with the woman who was driving and her passenger, a handicapped young man. Preuss's investigation ranges across the entire metropolitan Detroit region into the lives of a homeless woman who is a Marine Corps veteran, an 83-year-old private investigator, a retired FBI operative with a penchant for conspiracy theories, and a variety of unsavory types from the drug trade. Working through layer...