As the director of the U.S. Army's Central Identification Lab in
Hawaii (CILHI), Robert Dean "Kel" McKelvey has made a career solving
some of the country's most complex identification cases. Though fast
approaching emotional meltdown, Kel now faces his thorniest case yet:
the recovery of Jimmie Carl Trimble, a soldier from Arkansas who died
a hero's death in Vietnam 40 years ago. When a rare DNA sequence
turns up at both the Army and FBI labs, it points to the unthinkable:
a link between Trimble and a 40-year-old, unsolved racial killing in
the Arkansas delta. Partnered uneasily with the volatile FBI Special
Agent Michael Levine, Kel must peel back decades of silence to reveal
a complex web of stolen identity, betrayal, patriotism, collusion,
and lies..................................