A┬аNew York Times┬аbestseller.
In a Paris cafe, American surgeon Paul Osborn looks across the room and spots the man who murdered his father 30 years before. In London, a grizzled L.A. homicide cop named McVey joins Scotland Yard to unravel the mystery of a severed head and seven headless corpses. Neither American knows the link between the long-ago killing and the recent murders. But PaulтАЩs obsession to catch his fatherтАЩs killer will send him careening across Europe at breakneck speed, his life in the balance, his heart in the hands of a beautiful woman who may be his loverтАФor his downfall. Shadowing his every move is the relentless McVey. And haunting them both is a secret organization larger and more embracing than any the world has ever seen, preparing for an apocalypse to begin. . . .
тАЬA heart-thumping, stay-up-late novel . . . wild, unputdownable and outrageous . . . brilliant!тАЭтАФLos Angeles Times Book review