Absent Without Leave

20 years ago, Military Police Investigator Derek Thompson disappeared while investigating a shadowy criminal conspiracy operating out of San Francisco. After vanishing, he was declared absent without leave, and eventually a deserter....

Never to be heard from again....

Today, his son Mark Thompson, a Criminal Investigation Division agent stationed at Presidio of San Francisco, always believed his father disappeared during the Vietnam War. During a routine investigation, he begins to uncover information about his father and that ancient investigation, revealing a very powerful and dangerous organization that will do anything, and everything, to keep its secrets sealed and hidden.

Mark's investigation involves a ruthless CIA operative tasked with keeping secrets buried, a Texas family with ties to national government, and an FBI agent and his nemesis who have adopted the personalities of Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty in their timeless battle with one another.

Absent Without Leave begins and ends with a pursuit for justice, redemption, and the future of the American way.