Set during the chaotic weeks before the American withdrawal in 2021 from Afghanistan, the novel follows 24-year-old Jessie Niles who flies to Kabul to try to find her missing war correspondent mother. What begins as a desperate rescue mission explodes into something far more dangerous: a conspiracy involving drug smuggling, child labour in poppy fields, a ruthless warlord, and U.S. intelligence officers willing to kill their own to protect their secrets. When Jessie discovers that she has a 13-year-old half-sister, abducted as an infant and only just found, the sisters become targets in a deadly hunt across the war-torn country. With proof of the treacherous corruption on a U.S.B. drive and pale blue eyes that make them conspicuous in a country where visibility means death, both girls must survive against overwhelming odds.
