2013 Finalist for the Eric Hoffer AwardsFinalist for the 2013 Montaigne Medal given to the most thought provoking books of the year.Physicist Mitch Weatherby is sentenced to a federal penitentiary for the rest of this life following a botched raid on his home that left him accused of treason and his beloved wife dead in his arms. But when he is plucked from that doom by mysterious North Koreans, he must decide what he is willing to do to save himself, his friends, and the world.