At Guantanamo Detention Camp, criminal psychologist Dr. Lara Ivans interrogates illegal enemy combatants. The methods may be suspect, but for Dr. Ivans there is justification in the torture used to extract dubious confessions - it is after all her personal route to success. FBI agent Michael James Dougherty has his own dilemma. In New York's JFK airport, he is investigating a Swedish tourist who has become entangled in a web of confusion and suspicion about his past. Meanwhile Professor Paul Vines has reason to feel guilty. He has become a pawn in a deadly game...