Phil Brokerās 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 Minneapolisās nuclear power plant
When Phil Brokerās estranged wife, Nina, and his daughter, Kit, disappeared months ago, he wasnāt surprised. Nina has a mysterious and dangerous job working for the government, and her work has taken her in harmās 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 ābabysitterā named Jane, who claims to be Ninaās estranged girlfriend. Buddy Yelton, a local legend and hopeless womanizer, has apparently taken up with Nina. But Buddy Yelton is no harmless localāhe has hidden connections to the Aryan Nation, and possibly Middle Eastern terrorists as well. And two motel guests are equally mysteriousāBroker canāt help thinking he remembers them as former GIs he knew back in Laos in ā72. Obviously, all is not as it appearsāand more than Kitās life is in dangerāthe fate of the entire Minneapolis-St. Paul Metro area is in Brokerās hands.