Garnett, personally escorting a valuable painting to an art museum in New York, finds on arrival that he has been guarding a fake. He feels it is his duty to trace the real masterpiece as quickly as possible.

Many children make long journeys alone in planes, but when little Peter Firth arrives from Chicago and there is no one to meet him, he becomes just another responsibility of Zero One.

A young woman suffering from loss of memory in Chicago, and a murder the same evening in Detroit…it takes the astute mind of Garnett to suspect, and eventually prove, a connection between the two.