The dead man once worked as a mercenary with Joe Pike. Investigating, Pike and Cole become tangled in a web of grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, and double crosses – and at the heart of it, an act so terrible even they have no way to measure it. Sometimes, the past is never dead. It's not even past. 13th in the series. "Crais joins the ranks of author-narrators who can keep listeners enthralled. His Pike – dark, cold as stone – has a deep, menacingvoice... [This audiobook] is first-rate."—AudioFile