A remarkable novel from the National Book Award-winning author of ¿Going After Cacciato¿ and ¿The Things They Carried¿, which combines the power of the finest Vietnam fiction with the tension of a many-layered mystery.In a remote lakeside cabin deep in the Minnesota forests, Kathy Wade is comforting her husband John, an ambitious politician, after a devastating electoral defeat.Then one night she vanishes, and gradually the search for Kathy becomes a voyage into the darkest corners of John Wade¿s life, a life of deception and deceit ¿ the life of a man able to escape everything but the chains of his darkest secret.