A widow in Florida discovers the body in the coffin at her husband's funeral isn't his. Hunter McCoy, medical school professor and former intelligence agent, is asked to locate the missing body and anticipates a simple find-and-correct job. However, his search quickly turns deadly when he uncovers a sinister plot linking an international funeral business and a world-renowned neurological institute-a plot set in motion by a powerful and mysterious man, fueled by decades of hate and revenge.