Two world-renowned scientists have disappeared, FBI agent Andra Bailey is assigned to find them and hunt down the kidnapper. The agent soon suspects that a rare-metal shortage may be the link between the disappearances and that the motive is far more dangerous than she imagined. With the market in turmoil and prices sky-high, electronics companies and their power-hungry CEOs are ready to do anything, even kill, to keep production lines going. But when a third scientist disappears, Bailey throws caution aside to track the crimes to their source.