Miles Flint, a former detective, has taken over Paloma's business, living the solitary life of a Retrieval Artist. Working for families and insurance companies, Flint searches for those on the run from the legal system but does not reveal identities or give information to anyone other than his clients on a "disappeared's" whereabouts. While searching for the Disappeared, criminals on the run for commiting unspeakable acts of violence against alien cultures, Retrieval Artist Miles Flint investigates two suspicious deaths, leading him to a demented scientist who is now one of the Disappeared. When a powerful attorney visits Flint and begs him to take a case, Flint has no idea that the research will lead him to a murder at the highly publicized and popular Moon Marathon. Flint is intrigued by the case involving another Retrieval Artist who allegedly died due to a dangerous flu virus. Miles believes the death is not an accident. Police Detective Noelle DeRicci, Flint's former partner, investigates the death of a young woman at the same event. She knows the death is not an accident. It soon becomes clear that both deaths are connected. Flint and DeRicci find themselves in their own race, one against time and a certain kind of madness that could threaten everything they know and love.