Most people run from fires; firemen and cops run toward them especially when someone inside is screaming. It began when a boy banged on Burgess’s car window. He got a gasped Fire at the mosque and someone’s in there
and a frantic gesture toward the old commercial building that served as a mosque for Portland’s Somali community.
His dash into the building leads to a very young mother and tiny baby in a locked closet and to his worst nightmare – investigating the death of another child. He must deal with suspicious uncooperative refugees members of a motorcycle gang businessmen engaged in illegal activity and threats to his family before identifying the mute and terrified young mother and getting justice for a helpless child who never had a chance.