"When Archaeology Professor James Acton receives a cryptic message from an old colleague missing for years, he heads to Moscow with his wife, Laura Palmer, to meet the man. What they find isn’t their host, but a terrified graduate student with an entire country’s security apparatus after him. And now them. Their lives are forfeit in a race against time to escape a regime determined to preserve a secret from the past, that if revealed, could fundamentally change Russia’s future."