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 Russias next president.

In New York, psychologist Miles Wallace disappears after boasting about the experimental work hed done for the Politburo when he was a young professor in Minsk.

Chief Prosecutor Evgeny Shubin is proud of the work hes done to bring law and order to the Odessa region of Ukraine....

Stephen Powell was enjoying the drama and cruelty of what he was doing and the mental torture he knew he was causing others. He was a bitter, disturbed, and dangerous man who had found a novel way of extorting money from the families of missing teenagers. Semiretired MI6 officer Andrew Ball gets involved when Mandy Gray introduces him to the parents of a missing boy whose body has just been found in a grave near Southampton. Ball discovers identical killings have happened in France and Holland. The search for a serial killer begins as he tries to find the connection between the victim's...

Stephen Powell was enjoying the drama and cruelty of what he was doing and the mental torture he knew he was causing others. He was a bitter, disturbed, and dangerous man who had found a novel way of extorting money from the families of missing teenagers. Semiretired MI6 officer Andrew Ball gets involved when Mandy Gray introduces him to the parents of a missing boy whose body has just been found in a grave near Southampton. Ball discovers identical killings have happened in France and Holland. The search for a serial killer begins as he tries to find the connection between the victim's...