This is the gripping new Temperance Brennan novel from the world-class forensic anthropologist and Number 1 bestselling author Kathy Reichs The body of a teenage girl is discovered along a desolate highway on the outskirts of Charlotte Inside her purse is the ID card of a local businessman who died in a fire months earlier Who was the girl? And was she murdered? Dr Temperance Brennan, Forensic Anthropologist, must find the answers She soon learns that a Gulf War veteran stands accused of smuggling artefacts into the country Could there be a connection between the two cases? Convinced that the girl's death was no accident, Tempe soon finds herself at the centre of a conspiracy that extends from South America to Afghanistan But to find justice for the dead, she must be more courageous - and take more extreme action - than ever before