A resilient young woman must outwit a sadistic psychopath in this
pulse-pounding thriller from the author of The Silence of the Lambs, a
"master still at the top of his strange and chilling form" (Wall Street
Journal).
Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion
on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years.
Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable
appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of
other, richer men.
Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her
native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected
Status, subject to the iron whim of ICE. She works at many jobs to
survive. Beautiful, marked by war, Cari catches the eye of Hans-Peter as
he closes in on the treasure. But Cari Mora has surprising skills, and
her will to survive has been tested before.
Monsters lurk in the crevices between male desire and female survival.
No other writer in the last century has conjured those monsters with
more terrifying brilliance than Thomas Harris. Cari Mora, his sixth
novel, is the long-awaited return of an American master.
