From two #1 bestselling masters of crime fiction comes an extraordinary thriller about family, murder, and secrets.
It s been more than a year since LAPD detective Jacob Lev learned the remarkable truth about his family, and he s not coping well. He s back to drinking, the LAPD Special Projects Department continues to shadow him, and the memory of a woman named Mai haunts him. And while Jacob has tried to build a bridge to his mother, she remains imprisoned inside her own tattered mind. Then he comes across the file for a gruesome unsolved murder that brings the two halves of his life into startling collision. Finding the killer will take him halfway around the world, to Paris. It s a dangerous search for truth that plunges him into the past. And for Jacob Lev, there is no place more frightening."