Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender's father is undergoing chemotherapy when the supply of a critical runs out. Unwilling to accept the drug company's excuses? he hires PI Erin Pulaski to investigate Schiffer Hartwin. In Maryland? FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich are working a baffling case involving a ghostly apparition threatening a US Senator when a call comes in: a top foreign Schiffer Hartwin employee has been murdered.