"Billy Tree once protected the most powerful man in the world. If the situation called for it, he would have given his own life to save another's. But after his partner dies at the hands of a potential presidential assassin, a physically and spiritually broken Tree returns to his hometown of Falls City, Nebraska, to contemplate his own part in the fiasco." "Joan Blanchard never made it out of Falls City. She stayed behind, locked in an unhappy marriage....

"When heavy spring rains reveal a long-buried bag of bones, local police in the quiet Connecticut community of Clamden realize that a string of presumed runaways is really a case of serial murder. Someone is brutally slaying local teens and au pairs before taking them apart calmly, methodically, bone by bone. To find the killer, FBI agent John Becker is brought in to assist his old buddy, Clamden police chief Terrence "Tee" Terhune."--BOOK JACKET....