When a potent firebomb destroys part of an art gallery in an exclusive London district, FBI profiler Karen Vail is dispatched to England to work with Scotland Yard on drafting a threat assessment to head off future attacks. But Vail soon discovers that at the heart of the bombing lies a four-hundred-forty-year-old manuscript that holds clues to England s past with dramatic political and social implications. The manuscript s content is so explosive that a group of political radicals is bent on destroying it at all costs.Or is it the work of someone else? The trail leads Vail to a notorious fugitive who has escaped law enforcement for decades, and who appears to be planning a major attack on London and the United States. When Hector DeSantos, banished from the US Department of Defense and now a rogue covert operative, turns up in England and takes actions that threaten Vail s life, she finds herself on the run from the British security service, Scotland Yard, and a group of internationally trained assassins all determined to silence her . . . all tightening the net to ensure that she s got no way out.With his trademark spirited dialogue, page-turning scenes, and well-drawn characters, national bestselling author Alan Jacobson ( My kind of writer, says Michael Connelly) has once again crafted an intelligent, twisting thriller destined to be talked about long after the last page has been turned."