A British military operative turned private investigator gets caught in the crossfire when a missing person case takes him deep into the Republican heartland of north Belfast. When Roisin Byrne hires Jack Brennan to locate her missing husband, the private eye knows he'll have his work cut out for him. The fact that Tony Byrne - a Catholic who chose to have Protestant friends - could vanish without trace is disturbing, and even three years after his disappearance, Tony's friends and neighbours (including the parish priest) remain reluctant to get involved in the investigation. They believe the missing man is likely dead, the victim of a sectarian killing. It's a scenario that Brennan finds convincing, but Roisin begs him to continue his search, pleading "I want him back - even his bones -- if that's all there is."