An American missionary boy is kidnapped in
the desert of China, retribution for a murder
accidentally committed by his father. Years
later and half a world away, it would seem
that Maggie Carson, the granddaughter of
the murderer, would be free of the far-off
incident that has haunted her family for two
generations even after they retreated home
from the Middle Kingdom. But, the grand-
father lives in the father, and the father