Roland Ford #1
G.P. Putnam's Sons
September 2017
On Sale: August 22, 2017
352 pages ISBN: 073521266X EAN: 9780735212664 Kindle: B01NBHGSWB Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
For fans of Michael Connelly and C. J. Box: a stirring
thriller from New York Times bestseller and award
winner T. Jefferson Parker. In The Room of White
Fire, a P.I. must hunt down a soldier who is damaged by
war, dangerous, and on the run.
A young soldier escaped from a mental institution. A P.I. carrying his own wounds hired to track that
soldier down. A race against the clock to bring the soldier home before
he reveals the secret that haunts him.
Roland Ford—once a cop, then a marine, now a private
investigator—is good at finding people. But when he’s asked
to locate Air Force veteran Clay Hickman, he realizes he’s
been drawn into something deep and dark. He knows war,
having served as a Marine in first Fallujah; he also knows
personal pain, as only two years have passed since his wife,
Justine, died. What he doesn’t know is why a shroud of
secrecy hangs over the disappearance of Clay Hickman—and why
he’s getting a different story from everyone involved.
To begin with, there’s Sequoia, the teenage woman who helped
Clay escape; she’s smart enough to fend off Ford’s questions
but impetuous enough to be on the run with an armed man.
Then there’s Paige Hulet, Clay’s doctor, who clearly cares
deeply for his welfare but is impossible to read, even as
she inspires in Ford the first desire he has felt since his
wife’s death. And there’s Briggs Spencer, the proprietor of
the mental institution who is as enigmatic as he is brash,
and ambitious to the point of being ruthless. What could
Clay possibly know to make this search so desperate?
What began as just a job becomes a life-or-death obsession
for Ford, pitting him against immensely powerful and
treacherous people and forcing him to contend with chilling
questions about truth, justice, and the American way.
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