THE TOP OF THE CLASS OF NEW MYSTERY WRITERS.

    -- Los Angeles Times

 CONNELLY IS SO GOOD...HOW BEAUTIFULLY HE STREWS THE FAULTY SUPPOSITIONS,THE FLAWED CONCLUSIONS, THE FALSE DOTTOMS.

    --New York Daily News

 A SPLENDID WORK... RATCHETS UP THE TENSION...WELL DRAWN.

    --Wall Street Journal

 Michael ConneUy, New York Times bestseUing author of Blood Work and Angels Flight, writes novels of brilliantly original suspense. In his electrifying new novel, he takes us into a world of extremes:too much criminality, too much money, and too many ways to die.

 In L.A. cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche:except Cassie just did six years in prison and still has ""outtaw juice" flowing in her veins. Now Cassie is returning to her old profession, taking down a money man in Vegas. But the perfect heist goes very wrong, and suddenly Cassie is on the run-with a nearpsychotic Vegas "fixer" killing everyone who knew about the job.Between Cassie and the man hunting her are a few last secrets,like who really set up the job, why Cassie had to take the chance,and how, in the end, it might all be a matter of the moon...

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