When Peter Howard stumbled across a kidnapped child in the middle of nowhere he only intended to follow them and then call the police, but the man confronted him and pulled a gun. The next thing Peter knew Lisa was in his car, her captor was lying on the ground bleeding, and Peter was driving off madly into the night.

Peter soon discovered that Lisa's captor was the brother of the local police chief and that Peter himself was now a wanted man. If the locals caught them they would give Lisa back to her captor and by the time Peter could tell his story she would have disappeared forever.

Luckily, Lisa lived only a three hour drive away. The safest thing seemed to be to deliver her directly into her parents' arms, but the men who had kidnapped her were hot on their trail and not about to let either of them escape with their lives.