**From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann's
Heat 2--A riveting psychological thriller inspired by the never-caught
Zodiac Killer, about a young detective determined to apprehend the
serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city twenty
years earlier.
Caitlin Hendrix has been a Narcotics detective for six months when the
killer at the heart of all her childhood nightmares reemerges: the
Prophet. An UNSUB--what the FBI calls an unknown subject--the Prophet
terrorized the Bay Area in the 1990s and nearly destroyed her father,
the lead investigator on the case.
The Prophet's cryptic messages and mind games drove Detective Mack
Hendrix to the brink of madness, and Mack's failure to solve the series
of ritualized murders--eleven seemingly unconnected victims left with
the ancient sign for Mercury etched into their flesh--was the final nail
in the coffin for a once promising career.
Twenty years later, two bodies are found bearing the haunting signature
of the Prophet. Caitlin Hendrix has never escaped the shadow of her
father's failure to protect their city. But now the ruthless madman is
killing again and has set his sights on her, threatening to undermine
the fragile barrier she rigidly maintains for her own protection,
between relentless pursuit and dangerous obsession.
Determined to decipher his twisted messages and stop the carnage,
Caitlin ignores her father's warnings as she draws closer to the killer
with each new gruesome murder. Is it a copycat, or can this really be
the same Prophet who haunted her childhood? Will Caitlin avoid repeating
her father's mistakes and redeem her family name, or will chasing the
Prophet drag her and everyone she loves into the depths of the abyss?
