When a letter to a CIA operative suddenly shows up forty-five years after the contact who sent it disappeared in Southeast Asia, Unit I agent Adam Zak is assigned to investigate a group of Chinese children who the missing informant had discovered in a remote village in Cambodia, receiving an American education. Zak's search to determine who the children were and why they might present a security risk to the United States takes him into the heart of Bangkok's notorious red light district, through the jungle temples of Cambodia's Angkor Wat, and into the volatile secret world of computer network security. Who were the children the villagers called the "Weavers," and why does the economic future of the United States depend on unraveling their web of secrecy?