

With the help of a sympathetic nurse, Ambler manages to first clear his mind of the drug-induced haze and then executes a daring escape. But there's one critical difference between Ambler and the other patients in the facility: Ambler isn't crazy.

One of these employees, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler, is one of the few who is so dangerous that he is in complete isolation from other patients, kept heavily medicated and closely watched.

There, far from prying eyes, the government keeps in "deep storage" former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state make them a security risk to their own government, people whose ramblings might jeopardize ongoing operations or prove dangerously inconvenient. There, far from prying eyes, the government keeps in "deep storage" former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state make them a security risk to their own government, people whose ramblings might jeopardize ongoing operations or prove dang On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, there is a little-known and never-visited psychiatric facility. On Parrish Island, a restricted island off the coast of Virginia, there is a little-known and never-visited psychiatric facility.
