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On New Years Day in ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party Traded to Comaches he thrived in the rough nomadic existence quickly becoming one of the tribes fiercest warriors Forcibly returned to his parents after three years Korn never adjusted to life in white society He spent his last years in a cave all but forgotten by his family That is until Scott Zesch stumbled over his own great-great-great uncles grave Determined to understand how such a good boy could have become Indianized so completely Zesch travels across the west digging through archives speaking with Comanche elders and tracking eight other child captives from the region with hauntingly similar experiences With a historians rigor and a novelists eye Zesch paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier offering a rare account of captivity.