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Random House, 2010. Used. The seventeenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.A by-pass is planned in the sleepy village of Kingsmarkham, a move that would destroy its peace and natural habitat forever. Wexford's wife Dora joins the protest movement, but Wexford must be more circumspect. Trouble is expected. Before the protesters even have a chance to make their presence felt, the badly decomposed body of a young woman is discovered. Burden believes he knows the identity of the murderer, but Wexford is not convinced. Just as Wexford is about to investigate the murder, a number of people disappear - including Dora Wexford. The Chief Inspector must battle with his powerful emotions and solve the case immediately, before his wife is placed in any mortal danger...In this latest internationally bestselling thriller from David Rollins, author of The Death Trust, a bizarre murder leads an ex?Air Force special investigator into a shadow world of conspiracy, cover-up, and military secrecy where the difference between friend or foe is thin as? A scientist meets a grisly end when he falls from a military research ship and is attacked by a two-ton white shark off the Japanese coast. By the time Special Investigator Vin Cooper reaches the scene, there?s literally very little left to prove that the death wasn?t an accident. But Cooper?s instincts tell him that he?s looking at murder and that in assigning him to this case someone might just as well have shoved him, too, into shark-infested waters. What kind of top secret project could the military be engaged in that would require the services of a foremost marine biologist and a genetic researcher? The possibilities are ominous, but not as ominous as the truth. And then the unthinkable tragedy that everyone feared since 9/11 explodes with a terrifying sense of deje veu in San Francisco. Suddenly, with a second scientist presumed dead, an unidentified charred body in the morgue, and the ?accidental? parachute death of a friend in a Florida training field, Cooper is following a trail as narrow and as dangerous as a knife-edge?a trail that leads to what we all fear most: a secret ?government? within our government whose sworn duty is to kill anyone who opposes them.