The tenth novel in the critically acclaimed Lincoln Rhyme series from Number One bestselling author Jeffery Deaver. Robert Moreno an American citizen living in South America is shot in the Bahamas by a sniper. The killing was commissioned by the U.S. government who received a tip-off that Moreno was planning a terrorist attack on a U.S. oil company headquarters. But this intelligence was fatally incorrect: anti-American Moreno ordered a protest at the oil company not an attack. Lincoln Rhyme & Amelia Sachs are drafted in to investigate. While Sachs traces Moreno's steps in New York Rhyme travels to the scene of the crime in Nassau where he finds himself on a dangerous path trailed by the sniper himself. As details of the case start to emerge the pair discover that not all is what it seemed. Can they achieve justice & escape with their lives intact?