Invited by a reclusive mystery novelist to help draft his life story, a longtime correspondent and detective fiction expert finds herself in a real whodunnit when she learns the writer's first wife and son mysteriously vanished.

"Ten years since the events of The First Order, Sam Capra (focused more on being a suburban dad and a businessman than a "spy on call") has moved his son Daniel to Austin, and continued to run his collection of bars and nightclubs around the world. He's had no contact with his former partner Mila, or anyone he worked with at the now disbanded independent espionage group, The Round Table. One day, he gets a phone call he never expected: Marcus Bolt...