Detective Sergeant Stilwell and his deputies watch a plane land in the middle of the night at the Airport in the Sky, a remote airstrip in the mountains. A duffel bag of drugs is dropped and the deputies move in, but things quickly go sideways. An internal inquiry follows, putting Stilwell on the bench until he is cleared of responsibility for the disastrous operation. But he is determined to find out who brought deadly violence to Catalina Island, and begins his own secret investigation. While under orders to remain in the sheriff?s substation, he finds in the lost and found a valuable backpack that was never claimed. He traces it to a woman who disappeared while hiking on the island four years ago. Now thoroughly intrigued, he follows the mystery all the way to the LAPD?s Open-Unsolved Unit and Detective Ren?e Ballard.
