A pulse-pounding race-against-time thriller featuring forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett. Forensic psychiatrist Jo Becketts speciality is the psychological autopsy
- an investigation into a persons life to determine whether a death was natural accidental suicide or homicide. When Jo is asked to do a psychological autopsy on a living person
- one with a suspect memory who cant be trusted to participate in his own medical care
- she knows all her skills will be put to the test. Jo is called to the scene of an aircraft inbound from London to help deal with a passenger who is behaving erratically. She figures out that Ian Kanan has got anterograde amnesia & cant form new memories. Jo finds herself racing to save a patient who can walk & talk & yet cant help Jo figure out just what happened to him. Suddenly a string of clues arises something to do with a super deadly biological agent code-named Slick" a kidnapping & a secret partnership gone horribly wrong. Jo realises Kanans addled mind may hold the key to preventing something terrible from happening in her beloved San Francisco. With time running out she will have to get deeper into the life of a patient than she ever has before hoping the truth emerges from the fog of his mind in time to save her city
- & herself."