The two children of Suzi Plummer, the divorced wife of Idris Karya, an army officer of a prominent Indonesian military family, vanish while on an access visit with their father. Fearing an international incident, the Federal Police are pressured to find the children before they are taken out of country. Superintendent Dave Griffin, a divorced father, is moved by the pleas, of Suzi, who has long feared her former husband would try to take the children back to Indonesia to live with his mother, Sarminah. But Detective-Sergeant Jo Moody feels the case is more complex and even suspects the children's mother of being involved.—Scott Murray