Michael Spencer has questions only birth parents can answer, but his adoption search triggers a ripple along Ottawa's corridors of absolute power that still shudder at the thought of his birth father, even after all these years. Michael quickly suffers the wrath of an intelligence apparatus so secret he doesn't even know who he is running from. But he soon discovers he is not alone. His birth father has been watching, a virtual stranger with an inseparable bond, who returns to save the son he has never met. Now the race to save them both begins. And it all started with a dying wish to tell his birthmother she made the right choice.