"Intelligence agent Marlin Beck knows something so significant, so critical that he simply has to pass it on to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency for action.
There's only one problem: Beck is in no condition to pass anything on to anybody. Waking up in a hospital with a bandage wrapped around his head, the only detail he can recall is that he met with a Cuban defector before everything went blank. And that critical piece of information he so urgently had to give to the Director?
It is gone--completely wiped from his memory. But the CIA has a pair of analysts who are more than capbable of figuring out what Beck had uncovered: Mitch and Polly McKenna."