In a Paris cafe, American surgeon Paul Osborn looks across the room and spots the man who murdered his father thirty years before. In London, a grizzled L.A. homicide cop named McVey joins Scotland Yard to unravel the mystery of a severed head and seven headless corpses. Neither American knows the l[...]

The bestselling author of "The Day After Tomorrow" returns with a "high octane thriller" ("Publishers Weekly"), where Jack Barron--the youngest cop on the LAPD's murderous 5-2 squad--will get a baptism of blood and fire on a night he will never forget.[...]