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 Fordโonce a cop, then a marine, now a private investigatorโis good at finding people. But when heโs asked to locate Air Force veteran Clay Hickman, he realizes heโs 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 doesnโt know is why a shroud of secrecy hangs over the disappearance of Clay Hickmanโand why heโs getting a different story from everyone involved.
To begin with, thereโs Sequoia, the teenage woman who helped Clay escape; sheโs smart enough to fend off Fordโs questions but impetuous enough to be on the run with an armed man. Then thereโs Paige Hulet, Clayโs 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 wifeโs death. And thereโs 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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