Every year in his report the chairman of The Mogul Oil Company outlines the plans for future drilling. This year there are none. The only possibility of a new site is an area in Northern Ontario where a survey team has been working in vain for two years.
Time is running short, and head-office man Thornton is sent out to Canada to hurry the team along. He finds himself in an explosive situation.

Blackmailer, fraud, agitator-or brilliant young executive? Finding the truth about Brady is one of Thornton's toughest assignments.