Patricia Cornwell — the world"s #1 bestselling crime writer — presents an extraordinary novel in which Kay Scarpetta is confronted with a case that could ruin her professionally — and personally ...
More than twenty years and many successes since the start of Kay Scarpetta"s career, her secret military ties have drawn her to Dover Air Force Base and Port Mortuary, where she"s performing autopsies on fallen soldiers. But her new headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts—the Cambridge Forensic Center — is the first civilian facility in the U.S. to do virtual autopsies, and it is there that she encounters a devastating event.
A young man has died, apparently from a cardiac arrhythmia, eerily close to Scarpetta"s new Cambridge home. But when his body is examined the next morning, there are stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the Center"s cooler. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen-details that suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties. With Benton, Marino, and Lucy at her side, Scarpetta must fight a cunning, cruel-and invisible-enemy, as she races against time to discover who and why before more people die ... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Port Mortuary (Patricia Cornwell)