Patricia Cornwell — the world`s #1 bestselling crime writer — presents an extraordinary novel in which Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could ruin her professionally — and personally ... More than twenty years and many successes since the start of Kay Scarpetta`s career, her secret military ties have drawn her to Dover Air Force Base and Port Mortuary, where she`s performing autopsies on fallen soldiers. But her new headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts—the Cambridge Forensic Center — is the first civilian facility in the to do virtual autopsies, and it is there that she encounters a devastating event. A young man has died, apparently from a cardiac arrhythmia, eerily close to Scarpetta`s new Cambridge home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the Center`s cooler. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more