Just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for Race Week, a body is found near the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The next day, a NASCAR crew member comes to Temperance Brennan’s office at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner to share a devastating story.

A district attorney wakes up with no memory of the previous night to find that he has made the front page of the newspaper --- as a murder victim. 

After a bullet almost takes his life, former homicide detective Carl Morck is put in charge of sorting through a stack of Copenhagen's cold cases. To his surprise, he finds that a case of a missing politician actually captures his interest, because she isn't dead...yet.

In this concluding volume of a two-book series set in the prehistory of Shannara, the survivors of the Great Wars must face unimaginable challenges when their sanctuary is discovered.

When private investigator Graham Gage receives a phone call from a dying man named Charlie Palmer --- a specialist in concealing the crimes of political and financial elites --- he takes on a case revolving around the misdoings of a dishonest presidential candidate and his shrewd brother, a federal judge. As Gage proceeds with his inquiry, he finds himself embroiled in a web of murder, money-laundering and corrupted justice that not only puts Gage's life in danger, but also threatens the future of American democracy.

The bestselling author of CITY OF THE SUN returns with a relentlessly taut new novel featuring enigmatic private investigator Frank Behr and the American heartland setting that has won David Levien critical acclaim.