When the telephone awakened Thomas at three in the morning, he wasn't expecting to hear the voice of Angela, someone believed to have died five years earlier. Confused and in shock, he reluctantly agreed to fly to Brazil, where he would discover that he was unexpectedly committed to a dangerous rescue mission encompassing Sao Paulo, Curitiba, Rio, Brasilia, and Manaus, culminating in a gun battle with criminals from two continents, a thousand miles up the Amazon River. How many, and whose lives would it cost?