"JAMES HALL IS A MASTER OF SUSPENSE." —The New York Times Within hours of entering the Key West clinic, Thorn can sense the danger. Patients are isolated. Experiments are spinning wildly out of control. Suddenly Thorn knows just how far his friend will go to find a cure. Now, as a storm of greed and human suffering gathers around him, Thorn is scratching and clawing his way back to a life he almost had, back to the woman he almost married, and to the darkest truth of all: There is some pain that only killing can end. "YOU'LL FLIP PAGES NERVOUSLY, SCANNING AHEAD QUICKLY... AS ALWAYS, READING HALL IS A PLEASURE. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHO WILL BE LEFT STANDING AT THE END."