Audio Book Description:
Brandon Walker, once the sherif of Pima County, ARizona, no longer feels hehas a purpose.Areluctant retiree living in the long shadow of his wife,Diana Ladd, a successful authorof true crime books, he is bored with life. Salvation comeswith an invitation to join The Last Chance, an exclusive frat-ernity of former cops and forensic experts who look into unsolved murders. One case is staring Brandon in the face with cold, dead, entreating eyes-an In-vestigation that may have been mishandldby his department when he was a young lawyman. For more than thirty years, the brutal murder of a local Papago girlhas remained a mystery. The trail of the killer soon leads Brandon into a strange world at the un- likely border between forensic scienceand tribal mysticism: a place where evilhides behind a perfect facade. Now the seeds of terrorsown three decades earlierare bearing awful fruit. Aforgotten homicide in the Arizona desertis the beginning of a nightmare that is about to ensnare Brandon-the only personstill alive who can unravel a truth morefrightening than he ever imagined.