A chance meeting in an airplane flight leads to intrigue, murder and romance for Bill Watson. His life will never be the same. The "widow" Emerson hires Bill to find out what happened to her husband and who he was working for. All the leads show the CIA is involved, he worked for them, and is dead from a botched assignement he was sent on.Bill finds he has opened a can of worms or traitors and the country is really being run by one Colonel Grady and the very rich Jonathan Emerson III.