Robert Gordon, chief of medicine at a major hospital, doesn’t have long to live. He wants Bekker to locate the daughter he gave up for adoption forty years earlier when he was a young widower still in medical school.
Gordon’s brother, the lawyer who handled the adoption, is hospitalized with Alzheimer’s and doesn’t remember a thing, but a detailed investigation of his records reveals a startling discovery: Gordon’s baby wasn’t adopted but sold to a childless New York couple. Mr. and Mrs. Gertz raised their daughter Sarah in a loving home until she moved to Washington, D.C., to work as a lobbyist. Then Sarah Gertz disappeared without a trace.
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Bekker heads to Washington and tracks the last days of Sarah Gertz’s life. She was last seen after a meeting with Senator Oliver Koch, now the leading candidate for the vice presidential nomination in the next election. Bekker also learns that Koch had an affair with Sarah and that she had become pregnant. After an assassin’s failed attempt on Bekker’s life, Bekker is convinced that Koch was behind Sarah’s vanishing act, as well as the attempt to kill him and his family, but he can’t prove it.
And without proof, a murderer could become the next vice president of the United States.
