Grisly murders across New England point to a professional killer and a sinister conspiracy in a gripping thriller by USA Today bestselling author Steven Konkoly.

When a woman’s body is discovered on a frozen logging road in rural Vermont, FBI Special Agent Sean Burke expects another isolated homicide. But the victim’s precisely inflicted wounds suggest something more complicated and sinister: a killer professionally trained in systematic torture, interrogation, and extracting secrets.

The forensic similarities to recent, unsolved murders in New Hampshire draw Burke into a partnership with Special Agent Erin Callahan, an ambitious, by-the-book rising star in the Bureau. With a small, multistate investigative task force at their disposal, Burke and Callahan uncover a chilling lead: The killer may be a Cold War–era defector with ties to a classified CIA program that operates deeper than anyone could have imagined.

Now, in the darkest corners of New England, Burke and Callahan are on the hunt to find a prolific killer before they strike again—and must risk their lives to expose a far-reaching conspiracy before the truth is buried forever.

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<p>Steven Konkoly is a <i>Wall Street Journal</i> and <i>USA Today</i> bestselling author, a graduate of the US Naval Academy, and a veteran of several regular and elite US Navy and Marine Corps units. He has brought his in-depth military experience to bear in his fiction, which includes <i>A Clean Kill</i>, <i>A Hired Kill</i>, and <i>A True Kill</i> in the Garrett Mann series; <i>Wide Awake</i>, <i>Coming Dawn</i>, and <i>Deep Sleep</i> in the Devin Gray series; <i>The Rescue</i>, <i>The Raid</i>, <i>The Mountain</i>, and <i>Skystorm</i> in the Ryan Decker series; the speculative postapocalyptic thrillers <i>The Jakarta Pandemic</i> and <i>The Perseid Collapse</i>; the Sean Burke series; the Fractured State series; the Black Flagged series; and the Zulu Virus Chronicles. Konkoly lives in central Indiana with his family. For more information, visit www.stevenkonkoly.com.</p>