When the telephone awakened Thomas at three in the morning, he wasn't expecting to hear the voice of Angela; the ex wife who was believed to have died five years earlier. Confused and in shock, he reluctantly agreed to fly to Brazil when she convinced him that she was in danger, where he would discover that he was unexpectedly committed to a dangerous rescue mission encompassing the cities of Sao Paulo, Curitiba, Rio, Brasilia, and Manaus, culminating a thousand miles up the Amazon River. The question was, how many, and whose lives would it cost?