

What begins as an unusual and challenging investigation will become a terrifying race-against-time to save America from oblivion. It is a textbook murder and Pilgrim wrote the book. And it will take him to a rundown New York hotel room where the body of a woman is found facedown in a bath of acid, her features erased, her teeth missing, her fingerprints gone.

It will help NYPD detective Ben Bradley track him down. But that book will come back to haunt him. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation.

The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence.
