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.

Steven Konkoly is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today 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 A Clean Kill, A Hired Kill, and A True Kill in the Garrett Mann series; Wide Awake, Coming Dawn, and Deep Sleep in the Devin Gray series; The Rescue, The Raid, The Mountain, and Skystorm in the Ryan Decker series; the speculative postapocalyptic thrillers The Jakarta Pandemic and The Perseid Collapse; 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.