A young girl arrives at Hobson University Medical Center to obtain her medical records and is never seen again... Inexplicably, another woman dies a horrible and agonzing death during brain surgery while under local anesthesia... Hidden in a drawer deep in the hospital morgue lies a female cadaver whose organs are intact, but whose brain is missing... When Assistant Chief of Neuroradiology Martin Philips and Denise Sanger, the beautiful young resident who is his lover, find themselves thwarted in their search by the bizarre events, their inquiries are dismissed surprisingly lightly by the hospital authorities. And when they persist in their investigation, they are sucked into a maelstrom with a secret that is far more awesome in scope than their wildest paranoid fantasies. It is a secret that will turn Martin Philips into a fugitive, and Denise into the helpless captive of a conspiracy that wants much more from her than her life.