Elemental rage, bloody Greek myth, mans greed and capacity for cruelty, the insane imaginings of a killer, all intermingle in this stunning new thriller from the bestselling author of Messiah to create a novel of stunning ferocity. A stormtossed crossing on the North Sea a catastrophic ferry accident hundreds dead. Detective Chief Inspector Kate Beauchamp is one of the survivors but her ferocious fight to stay alive brings with it a high cost a burden of guilt that she should live while some of her friends died a terror of water a frozen inner core that never seems to melt.When the body of a young female journalist is found in Aberdeen soon after the disaster, Kate insists on conducting the investigation partly to exorcize her own demons, partly because she feels a strange affinity with the victim. The killing is peculiarly brutal and the murderer has left a unique calling card attached to the womans neck is a poisonous snake.Into this emotional cauldron steps the last man on earth Kate wants to see her estranged father, Frank, in Aberdeen to conduct the marine inquiry into the sinking. Was the disaster the result of a bomb, as claimed by the ferrylines chairman, or is he trying to hide something?In a sweltering heatwave, Kate and Frank conduct their highly pressured investigations. But for both of them, danger is approaching fast a vortex of violence which will sweep them up and endanger their very lives.

Binding: Paperback;482 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Classification: N/A; Weight: 548.64 g; Dimensions: N/A

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