Phil Brokerâs latest adventure hits close to home, when he finds his estranged wife and daughter caught in a web of deception that may conceal a terrorist plot to bomb Minneapolisâs nuclear power plant
When Phil Brokerâs estranged wife, Nina, and his daughter, Kit, disappeared months ago, he wasnât surprised. Nina has a mysterious and dangerous job working for the government, and her work has taken her in harmâs way before. Broker sets out on a mission to find Nina and force her to choose between life as a soldier or a mother, and take Kit out of danger once and for all.
At the end of Vapor Trail, Broker learns that Kit has been abandoned by Nina at a motel in Langdon, North Dakota. But when he arrives, the situation is far more complicated than he imagined. Kit is, bizarrely, accompanied by a âbabysitterâ named Jane, who claims to be Ninaâs estranged girlfriend. Buddy Yelton, a local legend and hopeless womanizer, has apparently taken up with Nina. But Buddy Yelton is no harmless localâhe has hidden connections to the Aryan Nation, and possibly Middle Eastern terrorists as well. And two motel guests are equally mysteriousâBroker canât help thinking he remembers them as former GIs he knew back in Laos in â72. Obviously, all is not as it appearsâand more than Kitâs life is in dangerâthe fate of the entire Minneapolis-St. Paul Metro area is in Brokerâs hands.