Holly Barker, the small-twon cop turned CIA agent, tracks a master of disguise--and a consummate killer. Authorities thought they had seen the last of Teddy Fay--the ex-CIA tech wizard who kills his political targets for sport--when his plane exploded off the coast of Maine. Now they've found irrefutable evidence that he is alive and on his way to hit a group who will never see him coming. Holly, having resigned her position as the Orchid Beach Chief of Police to work for the CIA, joins the elite task force tracking Fay in New York City. There, she begins to suspect that there are boulders being left unturned in the investigation. Fay seems privy to too many secrets--and employs the tricks only an insider would know. He begins to pick off America's enemies one by one--and no one seems the wiser. Can Holly trail her quarry and beat him to his own game? Can she get close enough to find him--and keep her cover?