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A #1 New York Times BestsellerLeaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston&#8218; South Carolina&#8218; Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City&#8218; where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital&rsquo;s psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient&#8218; Oscar Bane&#8218; has specifically asked for her&#8218; and when she literally has her gloved hands on him&#8218; he begins to talk &mdash; and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard.The injuries&#8218; he says&#8218; were sustained in the course of a murder &#8230; that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true&#8218; and it is he who is being spied on&#8218; followed and stalked by the actual killer? The one thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered &mdash; and more violent deaths will follow. Gradually&#8218; an inexplicable and horrifying truth emerges: Whoever is committing the crimes knows where his prey is at all times. Is it a person&#8218; a government? And what is the connection between the victims?

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&ldquo;Cornwell fans will find this reminiscent of the Scarpetta novels that hooked them years ago&#8218; and new readers will race to read the previous 15. Like a fine wine&#8218; Scarpetta has aged well.&rdquo;&mdash; Library Journal

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