Putnam
May 2014
On Sale: May 6, 2014
Featuring: Gil Martins
432 pages ISBN: 039916765X EAN: 9780399167652 Kindle: B00G3L6KF4 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr comes an amazing departure: an intense psychological thriller, sure to garner even more acclaim for this powerhouse author on the rise.
Gil Martins, an agent with the FBIโs Domestic Terrorism Unit in Houston, confronts the violence generated by extremism within our nationโs borders every day. He sees hatred and destruction wrought by every kind of โismโ there is, and the zealots who kill in their names. Until now, he has always been a part of the solutionโhowever imperfectโa part of justice. But when Gil discovers he played a key role in wrongly condemning an innocent man to death row, it shakes his faithโin the system, in himself, and in Godโdeeply. It even estranges him from his wife and son.
Desperate, Gil offers up a prayer. To know God is there, not through a sign or physical demonstration but through the strength to cope with his ever-growing, ever-creeping doubts.
His problems become more than personal as things heat up in Houston. A serial killer terrorizing the morally righteous turns out to have religious motivations, upping the case from homicide to domestic terrorism. A number of prominent secular icons die or are grievously injured abruptly and under suspicious circumstances, the latest of which is a New Atheist writer whoโs fallen into an inexplicable coma. Left and right, it seems Gil canโt escape the power of God and murder.
As Gil investigates both cases, he realizes that there may be a connectionโanswering his prayers in a most terrifying way.
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