Wilder Martin never let the world break him. As a star reporter in the height of the Cold War, he’s been jailed in Russia, survived Vietnam, and struggled through the death of his elder brother, yet has always managed to retain his identity, and the undying love of his almost-fiancée. 

But when he wakes up handcuffed to a hospital bed, unable to remember the events of the past month, he’s told that he shot and killed a man on July 2nd 1972. Despite what the evidence says, he knows he couldn’t be guilty, and he begs the court to let him prove it.

With a cynical court-appointed guard, Wilder sets out to investigate his own case, vowing to follow the evidence wherever it leads. But as his faith begins to crumble and the evidence drags him deeper into the criminal underworld, will his integrity stand, or will he succumb to the darkness of his past?