A reporter, Brian Morrison, covers a grave robbery in 1986 for a newspaper in downstate Illinois. The tombstone says the grave is that of a fifteen-year-old boy buried in 1941. In the cemetery Morrison finds graves of several other teenage boys buried within a couple of years of this interment.Morrison goes to the local funeral home to find out what happened to the boy, but the undertaker says he knows nothing about him.Morrison tells another reporter, Lee Ann Thomas, a newcomer to the paper, what he's learned-and what he hopes to dig into. She is hooked by the mystery and wants to help cover the story.The two seem ill-suited to work together. He's a lackadaisical old pro who learns things more by poking around than by orderly research. She's a young hotshot, orderly of mind, looking for action. The two chase a story that could bring down the British government-and, just maybe, win them a Pulitzer prize.Meanwhile, they fall in love.
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