In this #1 New York Times bestseller Dr. Kay Scarpetta is on a
deadly mission that will pull her in two opposite directions: toward
protecting her career or toward the truth...
Remains were all that was left of the stowaway. He arrived in Richmond's
Deep Water Terminal--the ghastly cargo of a ship from Belgium. The
decomposed body gives Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta no clues
to its identity--or the cause of death. But an odd tattoo soon leads her
on an international search to Interpol's headquarters in Lyon,
France--and towards a confrontation with one of the most savage killers
of her career...