The company chairman lay dead in the woods, his eyes unseeing, his hunting jacket punctured by a bullet at close range. Around him stood the four executives with whom he had been hunting, each with a reason not to be sorry about the death. A classic murder mystery, it would appear: The kind where the detective gathers everyone together at the end and solves the case.
But it wasn't going to be that easy, Lucas Davenport knew that. There were currents running through this group, hints and whispers of something much greater than the murder of a single man. Some time soon, unless he could stop it, there would be other deaths - and Davenport couldn't help but wonder if maybe this time the final death might be his own . . .
