Marina Benedict first saw the baby with his mother. Then, just minutes later, she saw him again, in the arms of a man she was certain was not the child's father. In a single life-altering act as baffling as it was inescapable Marina followed them into one of Pittsburgh's bleaker neighborhoods. The taking of the child, son of a rookie pitcher for the Pirates, galvanizes the city-- and puts Marina's life at risk.

"FBI Agent Sara Carter is mourning the fact that her father was killed trying to stop the abduction of her half sister years before. It's the reason she became a police officer and the reason for her robust policing style. When that style becomes a problem for her resident agent in charge, she is forced to accept a secondment to Interpol in East Timor. There she is assigned to investigate the abduction of babies in the mountains along the country's...