What would you do if your son suddenly disappeared in Syria? Would you contact the FBI? The State Department? Pray? Would you Google “What to do if your son disappears in Syria”? When the unthinkable happened, Ann Goodwin and her husband Tag, did all of the above. Their 30-year-old son Sam vanished in a supposed safe-zone run by the Kurds on the Turkish border. This is the extraordinary story of Sam’s abduction by the Syrian regime, who threatened to hand him over to ISIS for beheading if he did not confess to being a CIA spy. It’s also the story of a Midwestern American family who transformed themselves into their own detective agency, building up a network of journalists, hostage negotiators, Middle East experts, Russian diplomats, Vatican envoys, and shady mercenaries, until eventually they found a secret backdoor into the heart of the Syrian intelligence service itself.