A lone hunter chasing a wolf in the barren lands of North Dakota finds the body of a woman. Someone performed an autopsy on her—but apparently this time they did it without a table, a morgue, and an examination.
Soon it became clear that Aileen Kramer’s death deserves an investigation by the FBI. The reason: she literally has no past. Nobody knows anything about this schoolteacher—where she’s from and who she truly is… She clearly had something to hide.
FBI investigator Amos Decker, who has absolute memory, and his colleague Alex Jamieson are called to a small town in North Dakota to find answers. At the very heart of the oil industry, society’s worst vices are flourishing—fed by fast and big money. Locals really don’t like it when outsiders stick their noses into their affairs, so the life of a stranger isn’t worth even a broken cent here. However, Decker is helped by an unexpected ally…