#1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return in the
latest installment of the bestselling series featuring renowned
archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, where a fateful
trip to New Mexico uncovers a case that may prove impossible to solve.
In 2008, nine mountaineers failed to return from a winter backpacking
trip in the New Mexico mountains. At their last campsite, searchers
found a bizarre scene: something had appeared at the door of their tent
so terrifying that it impelled them to slash their way out and flee
barefoot to certain death in a blizzard. Despite a diligent search, only
six bodies were found, two violently crushed and inexplicably missing
body parts. The case, given the code name "Dead Mountain" by the FBI,
was never solved.
Now, two more bodies from the lost expedition are unexpectedly
discovered in a cave, one a grisly suicide. Young FBI Agent Corrie
Swanson teams up with archaeologist Nora Kelly to investigate what
really happened on that fateful trip fifteen years ago--and to find the
ninth victim. But their search awakens a long-slumbering evil, which
pursues Corrie and Nora with a vengeance, determined to prevent the
final missing corpse from ever coming to light.
